Senior Manufacturing Test Engineer

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, Teams, 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 and we are looking for passionate, high-energy engineers to help achieve that mission. As Microsoft's cloud business continues to grow the ability to deploy new offerings and hardware infrastructure on time, in high volume with high quality and lowest cost is of paramount importance. To achieve this goal, the Hardware, Infrastructure Management, and Fundamentals Engineering (HIFE) team is instrumental in defining and delivering operational measures of success for hardware manufacturing, improving the planning process, quality, delivery, scale and sustainability related to Microsoft cloud hardware. We are looking for engineers with a dedicated passion for customer focused solutions, insight and industry knowledge to envision and implement future technical solutions that will manage and optimize the Cloud infrastructure. We are looking for a to join the team. The Manufacturing Test Engineering team collaborates with Microsoft’s product design, validation, software, supply chain, and manufacturing teams, as well as global manufacturing partners, to develop and deploy test solutions for the hardware that powers Microsoft’s cloud services. The team defines manufacturing test strategies, develops automated test hardware and software, ensures sufficient test coverage, and uses production data to improve product quality, reliability, yield, throughput, and cost.   In this role, you will own manufacturing test solutions from early product development and New Product Introduction (NPI) through production ramp and sustaining. You will investigate complex hardware, software, firmware, and manufacturing issues; lead root-cause analysis and corrective actions; and deliver robust, scalable, and reusable test solutions across global factory environments.   We are looking for a passionate, curious, and collaborative engineer with experience in server systems and manufacturing test. The candidate has a technical foundation in Compute and GPU-based AI platforms, test automation, system-level debugging, and manufacturing data analysis. You will help ensure that Microsoft’s newest cloud hardware is manufactured efficiently and delivered to customers on time and at the highest levels of quality.   #azurehwjobs   #HIFE #SCHIE Responsibilities Develop manufacturing test hardware, software, firmware, and automation solutions to validate product and system-level functionality. Define and implement robust, scalable, reusable, and adaptable test strategies covering new product introduction, mass production, repair, and sustaining operations. Analyze manufacturing yield, test results, and failure trends to identify systemic hardware, software, firmware, and process issues; lead root-cause analysis and corrective actions. Define test coverage, test flows, equipment requirements, specifications, and acceptance criteria to prevent manufacturing escapes and meet product quality goals. Improve test cycle time, throughput, capacity, reliability, and cost through process simplification, automation, statistical analysis, and data-driven optimization. Develop and monitor key performance indicators for test-system health, product quality, manufacturing yield, and operational performance. Support factory deployment, qualification, readiness