Microsoft 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, OneDrive and the Microsoft Azure platform globally with our server and data center infrastructure, security and compliance, operations, globalization, and manageability solutions.

Our focus is on smart growth, high efficiency, and delivering a trusted experience 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 Mechanical Validation & Packaging Engineer with a passion for developing robust customer-focused solutions and striving for engineering excellence in mechanical validation and packaging design.

The Mechanical Validation & Packaging Engineer will contribute to ensuring the robust design and sustainable shipment of Microsoft products across the globe

Responsibilities

In this role, you will perform the mechanical validation of Microsoft 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.

In addition, you will design and develop packaging solutions for component and rack level systems to ensure their functional and structural integrity throughout the transportation and delivery process.

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.

As a key member of the development team, you will review mechanical designs and contribute to their improvement by actively applying lessons learned from validation throughout new product development. Throughout product development, you will be required to communicate validation test plans, results, and analysis.

To develop packaging solutions for Microsoft products, you will need to develop robust and sustainable designs from concept through production. You will need to utilize CAD tools and databases, create drawings, assign part numbers, and create Bill of Materials (BOMs) to manage portfolios of packaging solutions that span Field Replaceable Units (FRUs) to complete racks. You will be responsible for learning, applying, and improving on sustainable packaging design from a materials and re-use approach. As a packaging design engineer contributing to Microsoft’s shipping operations, you will have direct impact on optimizing cost and contributing to the company’s ambitious carbon negative goals.

As a Mechanical Validation and Packaging Engineer, you will have the exciting responsibility for ensuring the functional integrity of Microsoft products enroute and operating inside datacenters all over the planet.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Education : Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Packaging Engineering, Industrial Engineering or equivalent experience-based learning

• Experience : Minimum of 1 year of industry experience related to mechanical validation and packaging design

• Technical Skills : Experience with CAD software (e.g., PTC Creo,) understanding of mechanical design principles

Preferred Qualifications

• 2 years of experience in the electronics industry specifically related to mechanical validation of products (ie shock & vibration testing of electronic enclosures and related failure analysis techniques)

• Certification in Packaging Design

• Experience with industry validations such as ISTA, ASTM, and GR-63-CORE

• Experience with prototyping, tooling design, and high-volume manufacturing for packaging solutions

• Knowledge of statics and dynamics principles, material science, and design for manufacturing

• Proficient at PTC Creo, Windchill or similar software

• Experience partnering with ODM engineers

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html) .