Microsoft

Critical Environment Mechanical Engineer

Microsoft • $102K — $202K *
Atlanta, GA 30349In-Person
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • Master's Degree in Mechanical Engineering or related field AND 1+ years related technical engineering experience OR Bachelor's Degree with 2+ years experience OR equivalent experience.
  • Doctorate in Mechanical Engineering or related field OR Master's Degree with 3+ years experience OR Bachelor's Degree with 4+ years experience OR equivalent experience.
  • Ability to pass Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Responsibilities

  • Provide make-versus-buy recommendations to management based on complexity, financial impact, quality, and time duration.
  • Share deep knowledge of technical areas and industry trends with the team, aiding in advanced concept application.
  • Create robust designs and verification plans that address industry threats regarding hardware engineering for complex products.
  • Develop solutions for technical and design challenges while applying lessons learned to future projects.
  • Write internal device specifications and translate complex details for hardware testing.
  • Generate drawings for new products using modeling tools and guide other engineers in their application.
  • Review documentation to ensure correct test requirements are included in hardware designs and specifications.

Benefits

  • Eligibility for benefits and other compensation opportunities.
  • Work in an environment that fosters continuous learning and professional development.
  • Opportunity to influence and shape project outcomes in a dynamic team setting.
Full Job Description
Responsibilities

Design:
  • Provides make-versus-buy recommendations to management with tradeoffs based on complexity, financial impact, quality, reliability, and time duration. Influences decision making with stakeholders working on similar products.
  • Displays deep knowledge in multiple technical areas and acquires advanced knowledge of industry trends, competitor products, and advances in various engineering fields. Shares knowledge with others on their team and helps other engineers understand and apply advanced concepts.
  • Creates robust, scalable, secure, and extensible designs and verification plans that account for current industry threats for the hardware engineering aspects of a variety of established, complex products or feature areas.
  • Develops and implements solutions to complex technical and/or design challenges that may involve multiple technical and business-related variables, and applies lessons learned to help develop future focused solutions to complex design challenges.
  • Writes internal device specification sheets and interprets complex details required to design and test various hardware features.
  • Independently develops drawings that contribute to the development of complex, new products or features using modeling tools. Provides guidance to other engineers on the use of fundamental features of modeling tools.

Testing and Verification:
  • Reviews documentation to help ensure that the appropriate test requirements and improvements are included in relevant hardware designs and specifications.
  • Co-develops methods of measurement with appropriate partners for measuring features of new product technology based on newly created or modified verification plans.
  • Identifies new tools, test methodologies, and practices for creating test cases.
  • Develops, reviews, and executes test plans for complex feature areas or products.
  • Creates external testing supplier or partner engagement plans, evaluates supplier or partner readiness, and captures supplier or partner knowledge for use across a product group.
  • Records test data and conducts complex data/statistical analysis to identify bugs, defects, or failures rates, advises other engineers on the use of predictive modeling software, and compiles reports.
  • Uses root cause analysis to identify highly complex problems or flaws that may affect a feature or product design change and identifies possible solutions.
  • Provides guidance to other engineers developing product features.

Project Implementation:
  • Generates project implementation schedules, monitors performance against schedules, and helps determine resource dependencies for the hardware engineering aspects of complex features or products. Guides other team members.
  • Implements and tracks product plans that account for the user experience, enable customer/partner testing scenarios, identify critical requirements (e.g., function, quality, safety, reparability, and/or reliability) and are verifiable.
  • Evaluates and approves a variety of details of the reliability of materials, properties, and techniques used in production of large designs.
  • Identifies the most significant project risks at the outset of a project and develops plans to address those risks.
  • Communicates project progress/status within and external to the project team (e.g., to customers and partners) and escalates issues as necessary.
  • Suggests project areas that can support Material Change Review Board (MCRB) efforts to improve and react to production issues, as required within a project team.

Reporting and Documentation:
  • Writes customized reports and functional specifications for an established product or product feature, based on audits and information from product development and verification processes. Reviews and provides feedback on other engineer's documentation.
  • Documents complex details about materials, components, and/or functionality for complex devices via accepted drawing release processes and highlights potential compatibility, safety, and compliance issues.
  • Accurately records and tracks changes to designs following established configuration management and provides guidance to other engineers documenting these details


Qualifications

Required Qualifications:
  • Master's Degree in Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 1+ year(s) related technical engineering experience
    • OR Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 2+ years related technical engineering experience
    • OR equivalent experience.

Background Check Requirements:
  • Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:
  • Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.


Required Qualifications:
  • Doctorate in Mechanical Engineering, or related field
    • OR 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.


Mechanical Engineering IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $102,100 - $202,200 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 $133,800 - $219,200 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

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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Microsoft is an American multinational corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services. Microsoft’s devices and consumer (D&C) licensing segment licenses the Windows operating system and related software, Microsoft Office for consumers, and the Windows Phone operating system. The company’s computing and gaming hardware segment provides Xbox gaming and entertainment consoles and accessories, second-party and third-party video games, and Xbox Live subscriptions; surface devices and accessories; and Microsoft PC accessories. Its phone hardware segment offers Lumia smartphones and other non-Lumia phones. Its D&C segment provides Windows Store, Xbox Live transactions, and Windows phone store; search advertising; display advertising; Office 365 Home and Office 365 Personal; first-party video games; and other consumer products and services as well as operating retail stores. Microsoft’s commercial licensing segments license server products, including Windows Server, Microsoft SQL Server, Visual Studio, System Center, and related Client Access Licenses (CALs); Windows Embedded; Windows operating system; Microsoft Office for business, including Office, Exchange, SharePoint, Lync, and related CALs; Microsoft Dynamics business solutions; and Skype. Its commercial segment offers enterprise services, including premier support services and Microsoft consulting services; commercial cloud comprising Office 365 Commercial, other Microsoft Office online offerings, Dynamics CRM Online, and Microsoft Azure; and other commercial products and online services. The company markets and distributes its products through original equipment manufacturers, distributors, and resellers, as well as online.

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Size
181,000 employees
Market Cap
$1,762.4 billion
Industry
Enterprise Technology
Net Income
$51.3 billion
Founded
1975
5 Year Trend
+15.5%
Revenue
$153.2 billion
NASDAQ
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