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Senior Mechanical Engineer, Rack Design and Validation
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Washington, Redmond | |
 Nov 26, 2024 | |
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OverviewMicrosoft Silicon, Cloud Hardware, and Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE) is the team behind Microsoft's expanding Cloud Infrastructure and responsible for powering Microsoft's "Intelligent Cloud" mission. SCHIE delivers the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's over 200 online businesses including Bing, MSN, Office 365, Xbox Live, Skype,OneDriveand the Microsoft Azure platform globallywith our server and data center infrastructure, security and compliance, operations, globalization, and manageability solutions. Our focus is on smart growth, high efficiency, and deliveringa trustedexperience to customers and partners worldwide.As Microsoft's cloud business continues to grow the ability to deploy new offerings and hardware (HW) infrastructure on time, in high volume with high quality and lowest cost is of paramount importance. To achieve this goal, we are looking for a Senior Mechanical Engineer, Rack Design and Validation. Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond. In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.
ResponsibilitiesIn this role, you will utilize your design and analysis skills to lead design of rack and infrastructure from concept to production, working with a team of engineers. You will conceptualize and communicate design intent to hardware teams and perform what-if scenarios that is typical in early product development. Working in conjunction with our ODM and SI partners, you will design mechanical systems, components, and assemblies using CAD software and create prototypes for testing and validation and facilitate their introduction into our datacenters. You will create mechanical specifications and interface control documents and drive best practices for mechanical design across our product portfolio while ensuring compliance with regulatory and safety standards. You will be conducting design reviews, generating engineering documentation and developing test plans and reports including formulating DOEs, analyzing data and driving timely decision making to meet project schedules. Your designs will focus on ensuring part commonality, serviceability and safety, without compromising performance. You will be responsible for proactively selecting and evaluating materials to support Microsoft's sustainability initiative and drive the re-use of materials across product families and product generations. As a senior mechanical engineer, you will perform structural statics and dynamics simulations to guide design improvements and maintain adequate design margin against likely failure mechanisms. You will collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams including external vendors and suppliers to source components, lead design strategy, ensure robust performance prediction, review manufacturing processes, and ensure adherence to quality standards. You will provide engineering support to NPI teams by troubleshooting component and systems issues to enable a seamless integration of designs from development into production. You are expected to stay abreast of the latest trends and advancements in mechanical engineering and industry specifications in cloud infrastructure and data center technologies, and propose innovative ideas to enhance our hardware offerings. You will also lead mechanical validation efforts for Microsoft mechanical designs including but not limited to server chassis, racks, latches, power supplies, slide rails, and other building block components to ensure proper mechanical operation throughout their intended life in transportation and operation. To validate the mechanical design of Microsoft products, you will need to learn, understand, apply, and continuously improve mechanical design and test specifications. You will be responsible for applying best practices and leading development of comprehensive test protocols. Throughout product development, you will be required to communicate validation test plans, results, and analysis. OtherEmbody our Culture and Values | |