Senior Electrical Engineer

Are you passionate about building cool devices and technologies? The Surface Team focuses on lighting up Microsoft experiences with touch first computing. A fundamental part of our strategy is having desirable and powerful devices that enable the experiences people want and elicit their excitement. Creating these devices involves a close partnership between hardware and software engineers, designers, and manufacturing. We are currently building the next generation and Surface needs you!

We are looking for a Senior Electrical Engineer to focus on power and performance of future Surface products. The candidate will possess the ability to collaborate closely with our mechanical and thermal development teams, electrical engineering team, and software/firmware team to optimize system performance and battery life.

The candidate will be experienced in electrical engineering but also understand thermo-mechanical aspects of the active cooling technologies utilized in desktop/laptop computers and consumer electronic devices. Additionally, they should understand power states and power management features in Windows and/or other operating systems, control system theory, PID fan control, and thermal/acoustic tradeoffs as it applies to consumer electronics devices. The candidate should have a good understanding of System-on-Chip (SoC) power/performance trade-offs between frequency, voltage, and power, and voltage and performance binning techniques for SoCs.

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.

Responsibilities

• Development and implementation of power management techniques at a system level to achieve high power savings while maximizing performance.
• Working with other engineers across disciplines to design, test and debug complex hardware technologies for product development, and to meet aggressive cost and schedule targets.
• Evaluate and benchmark system performance for competitive in-market devices.
• Characterize system and subsystem performance and power efficiency.
• Design, build and test rapid prototypes for evaluation of new product ideas or technology concepts.
• Use simulation and lab measurement data to support troubleshooting design and propose corrective actions, drive failure analysis, root cause analysis, and design of experiments to resolve issues.
• Designing experiments for the purpose of clean gathering of actionable data used for optimizing power and performance.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field AND 3+ years technical engineering experience
• Knowledge of core engineering principles including circuit design and analysis.
• Experience working on power management techniques and methodologies in consumer electronics products.
• OR Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field AND 5+ years technical engineering experience
• OR equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 8+ years of technical engineering experience.
• Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience
• Familiarity with PC and embedded system hardware and software/firmware architectures.
• Understanding of control loops and PID based fan control algorithms.
• Experienced in high-volume consumer electronics design and manufacturing.
• Experienced with a variety of lab equipment, including oscilloscopes, electronics loads, thermal chambers, temperature sensing and management systems, digital multimeters, and automation equipment.
• OR Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience
• OR equivalent experience.

Electrical Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $158,400 - $258,000 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until October 3, 2025.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

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