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Microsoft Corporation Sr. Manufacturing Test Engineer in Taipei, Taiwan
Microsoft Silicon, Cloud Hardware, and Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE) is the team behind Microsoft’s expanding Cloud Infrastructure and responsible for powering Microsoft’s “Intelligent Cloud” mission. SCHIE delivers the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's over 200 online businesses including Bing, MSN, Office 365, Xbox Live, Teams, OneDrive, and the Microsoft Azure platform globally with our server and data center infrastructure, security and compliance, operations, globalization, and manageability solutions. Our focus is on smart growth, high efficiency, and delivering a trusted experience to customers and partners worldwide and we are looking for passionate, high-energy engineers to help achieve that mission.
As Microsoft's cloud business continues to grow the ability to deploy new offerings and hardware infrastructure on time, in high volume with high quality and lowest cost is of paramount importance. To achieve this goal, the Hardware, Infrastructure Management, and Fundamentals Engineering (HIFE) team is instrumental in defining and delivering operational measures of success for hardware manufacturing, improving the planning process, quality, delivery, scale and sustainability related to Microsoft cloud hardware. We are looking for seasoned engineers with a dedicated passion for customer focused solutions, insight and industry knowledge to envision and implement future technical solutions that will manage and optimize the Cloud infrastructure.
We are looking for a Manufacturing Test Engineer to join the team.
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Responsibilities
Development and Sustainability
Understands and develops test hardware or software to support the verification of product/usage model functionality. Collaborates with supply chain partners to develop and validate test strategy, product design and methodologies. Define and maintain core product test content and requirements. Develop test solutions for international repair service.
Monitor production yield data for test and product issues while implementing continuous test enhancements to ensure quality of product. Works with quality engineers on root cause remediation with regards to systemic hardware and software/firmware issues found during manufacturing tests.
Minimize test loops by using existing software and hardware tools to debug (and address other quality issues) before handoff to verification or system-level integration. Improves capability of products based on their understanding. Adjusts test utilization based on phase of projects with inputs from other functional teams such as quality or sourcing. Improves effectiveness and efficiency by removing non-value elements from product based on information gathered from process/test-system.
Understands how to architect test stations using generic building blocks that can be re-used in future test stations. Architect manufacturing test methodologies, develop test framework/content and deploy the test solutions in support of technologies and subsystems used in Microsoft products and system integration product development. Understands how and helps to develop future technologies/products.
Understands how to meet design specifications and business requirements within his or her area of responsibility by identifying and fixing bugs and avoiding issue re-occurrence. Develop plans to verify that systems (i.e., test system integration) are working as intended. Implement test cases and verification of whether the solution is meeting manufacturing key performance indicators (KPIs).
Monitoring Progress
Develop and maintain documentation on process and procedures within team and with its internal/external partners.
Understand how to develop appropriate test processes that define "What, Where, and How" to test. Helps to ensure adequate test coverage to prevent escapes. Use test equipment according to requirements and specifications provided by the factory. Measure test processes to maximize efficiency in daily tasks.
Understand and monitor configuration management capacity and capability constraints against forecast. Collaborate with manufacturing and sourcing teams to ensure continuity of supply. Ensure the timely communication of assigned project process through recurring formal presentations of key metrics, project schedules, and action item lists. Includes hardware and software/firmware portions into configuration management, bill of materials, and engineering change order management. Checks tester's health to ensure that it does not break down with some support from others. Helps conduct maintenance and repair for few tester elements.
Partner Management and Collaboration
- Work with factory, new product introduction (NPI) and dev engineering stakeholders to discuss different dev/test phase scenarios and how they can integrate new tools and automation options based on their understanding of test stages and tool/automation best practices. Work at each test stage to implement certain test tools as they build hardware/software into its end-state. Help connect issues from customers/test data centers and correlate that with what is happening at the factory level. Networks with design, validation, and hardware/software teams based on their understanding.
Other
- Embody our culture and values
Qualifications
Required qualifications:
Bachelor’s or above degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related fields.
6+ years of work experience in power related projects implemented in enterprise computer, consumer electronics design or hyperscale supply chain systems. Experience with server products is a plus.
2+ years’ hands-on experience and working knowledge on ICT, MDA, or BST.
3+ years’ experience in Functional Test technical manufacturing facilities or at contract manufacturing site with high-volume production as a Mfg Test Engineer, or
3+ years’ experience in diagnostic tool or utility development with electronic devices.
Familiar with Linux operating system. Able to execute debugging or issue commands under Linux.
Demonstrated good capability in troubleshooting with engineering team on manufacturing related issues with test systems and storage enclosure products.
Working knowledge of computer subsystems, component interfaces, add-on boards, electronic test equipment.
Ability to communicate effectively and professionally across a range of technical disciplines.
Ability to take on new challenges and communicate across organizational boundaries.
Must be willing to travel, domestic & international and to work off hours to support business.
Ability to navigate through ambiguities and concepts and realize it to practical process or flows.
Demonstrated abilities to drive process improvements
Preferred qualifications:
Understanding the design and manufacturing process at the PCBA and enclosure level is a plus.
Knowledge of rack level test framework and methodologies
Knowledgeable about SW development flow and proficiency on any kind of source code control tool
Familiar with Azure DevOps Services, Business Intelligence tools, or Power Automate tools is a plus.
FW/BIOS coding experience
Driver development experience, Linux or Windows drivers.
Software development engineer experience in SQL, C#, C++, Rust, or Python
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.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html) .