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Storage System Technical Lead

Microsoft· Hardware Engineering
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Redmond, WA, Mountain View, CA, Austin, TX, Hillsboro, OR, Raleigh, NC$142.8k - $274.8kFull-timePosted 4w ago

About the role

Principal Hardware Engineer serving as the Storage System Technical Lead (STL) within the Cloud Hardware and System Engineering (CHSE) team, providing end-to-end technical leadership for Azure storage hardware platforms from concept through deployment and fleet operations.

Responsibilities

  • Provide end-to-end system technical leadership for Azure storage platforms during hardware development and validation, translating approved requirements and architecture into an executable cross-functional technical strategy.
  • Drive timely program-level technical decisions across hardware, firmware, software, validation, manufacturing, datacenter integration, and operations, balancing performance, capacity, reliability, availability, serviceability, security, power, cost, schedule, and implementation risk.
  • Establish the quality bar for system specifications, subsystem interfaces, design documentation, design reviews, validation strategies, test plans, and launch criteria, and maintain traceability from requirements through validation and deployment evidence.
  • Identify integration gaps and assess new, unique, difficult, or differentiated technologies and features across subsystems, suppliers, and lifecycle phases; define dependencies, owners, risks, mitigations, validation needs, and closure criteria.
  • Lead or sponsor system design reviews with Microsoft engineering teams, silicon and component partners, and ODMs, ensuring qualification, interoperability, and manufacturing test coverage address system requirements and risks.
  • Lead cross-functional resolution of complex issues found during design, bring-up, validation, manufacturing, deployment, or fleet operation, driving root cause, corrective action, verified closure, and propagation of fixes and lessons learned.
  • Partner with the Technical Program Manager and Product Owner to assess the technical impact of proposed changes, drive milestone readiness, provide technical approvals defined by program governance, and communicate status, risks, decisions, and help-needed items to leadership.
  • Collaborate across architecture, silicon, electrical, mechanical, thermal, power, firmware, operating systems, validation, systems engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, datacenter engineering, operations, suppliers, ODMs, and customer-facing teams to align subsystem decisions and deliver an integrated storage platform.

Qualifications

  • Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 7+ years technical engineering experience OR Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience OR equivalent experience.

Skills

Required:Storage hardware platform designcross-functional technical leadershipSystem design reviewsRoot cause analysis and corrective action

Benefits

  • Microsoft Cloud Background Check will be required upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
Last updated Sep 24, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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