Sr Mechanical Engineer

About This Role

This Senior Mechanical Engineer role at Microsoft's Cloud Operations & Innovation team involves designing and implementing scalable infrastructure for cloud services, focusing on hardware engineering aspects with an emphasis on environmental sustainability and optimization.

Responsibilities

• Create robust, scalable, secure, and extensible designs and verification plans for hardware engineering aspects of complex products or feature areas
• Develop and implement solutions to complex technical and design challenges, applying lessons learned to future solutions
• Interpret device specification sheets to design and test various hardware features, including secure defaults and security compliance metrics in specifications
• Acquire advanced knowledge of industry trends, competitor products, and advances in engineering fields, and share expertise with team members
• Participate in creating intellectual property, potentially filing patents and conducting technical due diligence while adhering to security guidelines
• Specify dimensions and measurement requirements for statistical analyses to evaluate product cost and quality, advising on recommended measurement tools
• Provide make-versus-buy recommendations to management based on complexity, financial impact, quality, reliability, and time duration
• Develop drawings for complex new products or features using modeling tools and guide other engineers on fundamental features
• Identify partners or suppliers using established criteria, including adherence to security governance, and collaborate via workshops and presentations
• Apply expertise in predictive modeling techniques to inform design choices and assess/minimize security risks for products
• Research and identify new tools, technologies, or processes for project implementation to improve product quality, security, performance, and reliability
• Resolve design issues, identify recurring issues, and recommend design changes and tradeoffs for multiple products
• Generate project implementation schedules, monitor performance, and determine resource dependencies, guiding other team members
• Evaluate and approve details of materials, properties, and techniques for reliability in large designs
• Implement and track product plans, accounting for user experience, testing scenarios, identifying critical requirements, and verifying secure operations

Requirements

• Master's Degree in Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 3+ years related technical engineering experience OR Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 4+ years related technical engineering experience OR equivalent experience
• 3+ years of hands-on experience operating, maintaining, or troubleshooting chiller plant systems, including knowledge of HVAC principles, mechanical components, and safety protocols
• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements

Qualifications

• Master's Degree in Mechanical Engineering, or related field OR Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering, or related field
• 3+ years related technical engineering experience with a Master's degree, or 4+ years with a Bachelor's degree. 3+ years of hands-on experience operating, maintaining, or troubleshooting chiller plant systems.

Nice to Have

• Doctorate in Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 3+ years related technical engineering experience OR Master's Degree in Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 6+ years related technical engineering experience OR Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 8+ years related technical engineering experience OR equivalent experience

Skills

* Required skills