Senior Manufacturing Test Engineer

United States, California, Mountain View

Overview
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 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 insight and industry knowledge to envision and implement future technical solutions that will manage and optimize the Cloud infrastructure. We are looking for a Senior Manufacturing Test Engineer to join our team. Join us in this exciting AI revolution. Be part of the infrastructure engineering taskforce to fuel this world changing mission. 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.

Responsibilities
As a Senior Manufacturing Test Engineer, you will define MFG test methodologies to support the verification of product functionalities following the assembly process of Printed Circuit Board Assembly / PCBAs, storage enclosures, and racked assemblies within the ODM & System Integrators & Contract Manufacturer sites. Ownership may span across both NPI and sustaining phases. Regular responsibilities may include:

1. Develop and sustain test hardware & software.
2. Define a robust Mfg test framework to ensure product quality by driving highest test coverage according to the hardware development spec.
3. Work with board engineering and other cross-functional teams to define design for tests for thermal-mechanical solutions from chip to system level.
4. Lead the development of test hardware and software/firmware to support the Thermal validation of thermal-mechanical hardware at chip, card and system level.
5. Provide expertise judgement on Mfg test readiness before every NPI build start, including test hardware, software, or firmware perspectives.
6. Steer through the identified risks with timely risk assessments and mitigations to internal/external partners.
7. Drive test optimization to increase manufacturing throughput and reduce the cost without compromising product quality.
8. Develop a stable and efficient core test content/script and deploy the test solutions for blade and rack level systems.
9. Able to read/write test script or source code comfortably or even onsite debugging agilely.
10. Follow Mfg Test Engineering team preferred framework and process to release and maintain our core test content/script.
11. A comprehensive validation or regression test is expected prior to the release.
12. Work on root cause remediation with regards to systemic hardware and firmware issues found during manufacturing tests.
13. Interface with internal reliability and qualification teams to drive parity between test coverage from reliability and qualification to manufacturing.
14. Monitor production yield data regularly and deep dive test related issues with a systematic approach for resolution or improvement.
15. Implement continuous test enhancements to improve quality.
16. Realize CM/ODM capacity and capability constraints against forecast; Collaborate across each functional team to ensure continuity of supply.
17. Develop and maintain documentation on processes or procedures.

Other: Embody our culture and values.