Senior Product Engineer(Manufacturing)

**Overview**

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**
- In order to be successful in this position, this individual must effectively collaborate with both the contract manufacturer and a variety of peer groups across the organization, including, but not limited to, Factory Management, Supplier Quality Engineering, Manufacturing Test Engineering, Quality, and Hardware/Software Development.
- Manage and systematically reduce quality excursion in mass production of products.
- In depth product designs and provide engineering support and leadership at engineering builds.
- Work with contract manufacturing FA team to track production product problems and timely conduct fault isolation and failure analysis.
- Perform electrical technical analyses, recommend, prepare and execute designs-of-experiments, and characterize process and design interactions.
- Stay current and versed in emerging technologies, materials, methods and manufacturing processes.
- Generate best practices guidelines and documentation to enable efficiencies in future hardware development and sustaining activities.
- Drive clear and accurate communications and recommendations to peers and senior management by distilling complex technical challenges, outlining options, and providing supporting data.
- Liaise with product design team on DFT and provide input on design change as needed.
- Support products transfer, qualification and establish failure analysis, repair system at new contract manufacturing site.

**Qualifications**
**Required Qualifications**:

- Senior Factory Management Engineer Manager, Factory Management Engineering.
- Master's Degree in manufacturing, material, mechanical, electrical, and industrial engineering, or related field AND 4+ years experience in a manufacturing environment /repair
- OR Bachelor's Degree in manufacturing, material, mechanical, electrical, and industrial engineering, or related field AND 5+ years experience in a manufacturing environment/repair
- OR 7+ years of equivalent experience.

- Demonstrated ability in product and statistical process control, MSA/GRR, part characterization, structured problem solving, root cause and defect/failure analysis, FMEA, DOE, FEA, reliability testing, core and advanced metrology, statistical data analysis.
- Proficiency with statistical analysis, including usage of tools such as JMP or Minitab.
- Fluent in both written and spoken English.

**Other 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.

**Preferred Qualifications**:

- 8+ years as either a hardware engineer directly contributing to product development or high-volume manufacturing product or test engineer involving consumer electronics, electro-mechanical systems manufacturing, and integration.
- Direct involvement in NPI (New Product Introduction) and manufacturing operations experience.
- PowerShell and Python script development capabilities.
- Lean and 6 sigma certificates.

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