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Sr. Manufacturing Engineer

Microsoft· Manufacturing Engineering
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Redmond, WA, Mountain View, CA$119.8k - $234.7kFull-timePosted 3w ago

About the role

Senior hardware manufacturing engineer leading strategy and execution for cloud-hardware, GPU, optical-networking, and custom-silicon programs from early design through NPI, qualification, ramp, and sustaining production at global factories.

Responsibilities

  • Manufacturing Technical Leadership: Serve as the senior manufacturing engineering lead for assigned cloud-hardware, GPU, optical-networking, and custom-silicon programs. Own the manufacturing technical strategy from early architecture through sustaining production, ensuring products can be built, tested, repaired, scaled, and supported reliably across global factories.
  • Design for Manufacturing and Product Industrialization: Lead DFM, DFA, testability, serviceability, packaging, automation, tolerance, and sustainability reviews with design, NPI, quality, reliability, supplier, and factory teams. Identify product and process constraints early, quantify risk, and influence architecture and design decisions to improve manufacturability, yield, cost, reliability, and time to market.
  • Manufacturing Architecture and Technical Ownership: Serve as the manufacturing technical authority for assigned products and systems. Translate product architecture into production processes, equipment and tooling strategies, assembly sequences, inspection and test methods, process controls, repair boundaries, supplier requirements, and factory qualification plans.
  • GPU and Optical Networking Manufacturing: Lead manufacturing architecture, DFM, process development, and production-readiness activities for GPU and AI systems using optical and high-speed interconnect technologies. Drive manufacturability across optical engines and modules, high-speed electrical flyover cables, multifiber connectors, fiber trunks and shuffle assemblies, accelerator trays, switch trays, rack-level fiber management, liquid cooling, and related infrastructure.
  • Optical Process Qualification and Factory Test: Develop and qualify contamination-controlled handling, cleaning, inspection, installation, routing, configuration-verification, and test processes for optical and high-speed interconnect assemblies. Establish factory coverage for connector integrity, cable and fiber mapping, optical-path continuity, link bring-up, telemetry, firmware interoperability, power sequencing, cooling integrity, serviceability, and system-level fault isolation.
  • Optical Supplier and Ramp Readiness: Drive qualification and production readiness across optical-module, laser, connector, cable, fiber-management, rack, cooling, PCB, and contract-manufacturing partners. Own supplier DFM closure, process capability, yield improvement, capacity validation, interoperability, second-source readiness, and contingency planning for maturing optical technologies.
  • NPI Manufacturing Execution and Technical Leadership: Convert product architecture and roadmaps into integrated manufacturing plans covering prototype builds, EV/ DV/ PV, qualification, and volume ramp. Establish readiness criteria for design, process capability, equipment, tooling, fixtures, test, materials, repair, capacity, and supplier controls. Lead critical builds and drive go/no-go decisions.
  • Factory Operations and Capacity Readiness: Assess and develop production-line capability, factory layouts, staffing models, equipment plans, tooling, fixtures, test coverage, material readiness, repair operations, and capacity models. Lead cross-functional recovery actions to protect schedule, quality, capacity, and supply continuity.
  • Supplier Management and Production Risk Mitigation: Provide technical leadership to contract manufacturers, ODMs, OEMs, component suppliers, and sub-tier partners. Assess capability, qualification, compliance, capacity, interoperability, and business-continuity risks; influence supplier actions aligning with stakeholders.
  • Manufacturing Process and Supplier Readiness: Lead supplier process qualification and readiness assessments, including audits, PPAP, control plans, fixture and tooling acceptance, incoming-quality criteria, line validation, test coverage, and repair readiness. Develop standardized manufacturing processes for repeatable production, yield improvement, and scalable ramp.
  • Quality Systems and Process Control: Apply SPC, CP analysis, MSA, control plans, inspection data, and yield analytics to reduce variation and detect defects; drive automation and factory-data improvements.
  • Root Cause Analysis and Continuous Improvement: Lead complex issue triage using 8D, fishbone, 5-Why, PFMEA, DFMEA, Six Sigma; establish containment, verify corrective actions, prevent recurrence, and capture reusable lessons.
  • Technical Validation and Risk Management: Own manufacturing risk identification and mitigation across NUDD, PFMEA, qualification, yield, tooling, materials, supplier readiness, schedule, and capacity; escalate risks with options and data.
  • Metrics, Governance, and Executive Communication: Establish dashboards and operating mechanisms for readiness, qualification, yield, defect trends, risk closure, supplier performance, capacity, and corrective actions; communicate insights to leadership.
  • Cross-Program Strategy and Knowledge Transfer: Develop reusable standards and roadmaps; transfer lessons, mentor engineers, and clarify accountability across distributed teams.

Qualifications

  • Master's Degree in Manufacturing, Material, Mechanical, Electrical, Thermal, or Industrial Engineering, or related field AND 4+ years experience in a manufacturing environment /repair OR Bachelor's Degree in Manufacturing, Material, Mechanical, Electrical, Thermal, or Industrial Engineering, or related field AND 5+ years experience in a manufacturing environment/repair OR equivalent experience.

Skills

Required:Manufacturing leadershipDesign for Manufacturing (DFM)Optical networking manufacturingNPI and ramp planningQuality systems and statistical methods

Benefits

  • This position may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
  • Microsoft Cloud Background Check required on hire/transfer and every two years.
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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