Microsoft

Hardware Manufacturing Engineer

Microsoft • $102K — $202K *
Mountain View, CA 94040In-Person
Manufacturing & Automotive
Less than 5 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • Master's or Bachelor's degree in relevant engineering field and specific years of experience in manufacturing or repair environment.
  • Preferred: Experience in NPI builds, process readiness, or production ramp activities.
  • Proven problem-solving skills and experience leading triage for manufacturing issues using structured methods.
  • Ability to effectively collaborate with cross-functional and external teams to resolve technical issues.
  • Experience in high-pressure environments with strong communication skills for status updates and recommendations.
  • Familiarity with advanced hardware programs, such as SoCs or ASICs, affecting manufacturing constraints.
  • Knowledge of statistical methods for manufacturing analysis including SPC and yield analytics.

Responsibilities

  • Participate in manufacturing design reviews to improve product readiness through DFM/DFA and sustainability evaluations.
  • Drive NPI build execution independently, ensuring readiness and coordination across teams before production starts.
  • Work with suppliers to evaluate manufacturing capabilities and support compliance and risk management within projects.
  • Conduct process audits and readiness assessments to improve quality and production repeatability.
  • Apply statistical process control and analytics to enhance manufacturing visibility and defect detection.
  • Lead structured root cause analysis on manufacturing issues and implement corrective actions effectively.
  • Analyze operational data to identify trends and improvement opportunities for products and supplier processes.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work with cross-functional teams on innovative hardware solutions.
  • Engagement in continuous improvement initiatives within manufacturing processes.
  • Access to professional development resources and training programs.
  • Opportunities for career advancement within a leading tech company's dynamic environment.
Full Job Description
Responsibilities

  • Product Industrialization and Design for Manufacturing: Participate in DFM/DFA, testability, serviceability, packaging, automation, and sustainability reviews with design, NPI, quality, reliability, and supplier teams. Identify manufacturing constraints and drive actions to improve product and process readiness.


  • NPI Build Execution and Capacity Readiness: Independently drive NPI build execution for assigned products or subsystems, coordinating engineering validation, design validation, production validation, and ramp builds across engineering teams and contract manufacturing sites. Assess equipment, tooling, fixtures, test coverage, staffing assumptions, material availability, and line capacity; escalate gaps and drive recovery actions before build start.


  • Supplier Management and Production Risk Mitigation: Partner with suppliers, sourcing, quality, NPI, and engineering teams to assess manufacturing capability, qualification, compliance, capacity, and sub-tier risks. Track corrective actions, communicate constraints, and support supply continuity within assigned workstreams.


  • Manufacturing Process and Supplier Readiness: Execute supplier process qualification and readiness assessments, including process audits, PPAP activities, fixture and tooling acceptance, incoming-quality criteria, and control-plan reviews. Improve manufacturing and repair processes to support repeatable production, yield improvement, and ramp readiness.


  • Quality Systems and Process Control: Apply statistical process control, process capability analysis, control plans, inspection data, and yield analytics to reduce variation and detect defects early. Identify and implement practical automation, digital monitoring, vision-inspection, or analytics improvements that increase manufacturing visibility and issue-detection speed.


  • Root Cause Analysis and Continuous Improvement: Lead L1/L2 triage for manufacturing-found issues and use structured problem-solving methods such as 8D, fishbone, 5-Why, and PFMEA to determine root cause, implement corrective actions, verify effectiveness, and prevent recurrence. Coordinate escalation to design, quality, supplier, and reliability teams when deeper technical ownership is required.


  • Manufacturing Data and Operational Improvement: Analyze yield, defect, cycle-time, issue-aging, equipment, and process data to identify trends and improvement opportunities. Translate findings into clear recommendations and implement approved improvements within assigned products, processes, or supplier workstreams.


  • Technical Validation and Risk Management: Maintain manufacturing risk registers and drive closure of PFMEA, NUDD, qualification, yield, tooling, material, schedule, and supplier-readiness risks. Support process qualifications, tolerance assessments, simulations, engineering changes, and failure-mode evaluations within assigned scope.


  • Metrics, Communication, and Knowledge Transfer: Maintain dashboards for build readiness, yield, defects, risk closure, supplier performance, and corrective actions. Provide concise status, risks, and recommendations to program and manufacturing leadership, and document lessons learned for future builds and cross-program reuse.


Qualifications

Required Qualifications :

  • Master's Degree in Manufacturing, Material, Mechanical, Electrical, Thermal, or Industrial Engineering, or related field AND 1+ year(s) experience in a manufacturing environment /repair OR Bachelor's Degree in Manufacturing, Material, Mechanical, Electrical, Thermal, or Industrial Engineering, or related field AND 2+ years experience in a manufacturing environment/repair OR equivalent experience.


Other: Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements is required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to, the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire or transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Master's Degree in Manufacturing, Material, Mechanical, Electrical, Thermal, or Industrial Engineering, or related field AND 6+ years experience in a hardware manufacturing or new product introduction environment OR Bachelor's Degree in a related engineering field AND 8+ years experience in a hardware manufacturing or new product introduction environment OR equivalent experience.
  • Experience executing hardware NPI builds, manufacturing process readiness, production ramp, or supplier qualification activities.
  • Experience using structured problem-solving methods and leading L1/L2 triage for hardware manufacturing issues.
  • Experience collaborating with cross-functional engineering teams and external manufacturing partners to drive technical issues and production risks to closure.
  • Ability to prioritize and execute work in a high-pressure environment and communicate build status, risks, and recommendations clearly to technical and program stakeholders.
  • Experience in SoC system integration, or advanced ASIC-based hardware programs, including understanding how silicon-level decisions affect system manufacturing constraints.
  • Experience with server compute, storage, GPU or AI accelerator, networking, power-delivery, or high-speed interconnect product development or manufacturing.
  • Experience applying SPC, process capability analysis, control plans, yield analytics, or other statistical methods and translating the results into clear manufacturing recommendations.
  • Experience with supplier qualification, PPAP, process audits, DFM/DFA, engineering-change impact assessment, and corrective-action closure across one or more hardware commodity or process areas.
  • Experience coordinating geographically distributed engineering and manufacturing teams and using PLM, change-control, project-tracking, and manufacturing execution systems.
  • Familiarity with Valor, Creo, Cadence Allegro, Power BI, or equivalent manufacturing, design-review, and data-visualization tools.

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Manufacturing 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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