Microsoft
Hardware Engineer - CTJ - POLY
$120K–$261K
Redmond, WA +2 · On-site · Full-time · Posted Oct 12, 2026
- Location
- Redmond, WA
Reston, VA
Atlanta, GA - Experience
- Required: 3+ years with a master’s degree, or 5+ years with a bachelor’s degree, or equivalent experience. Preferred alternatives: 3+ years with a doctorate, 6+ years with a master’s degree, or 8+ years with a bachelor’s degree, or equivalent experience.
- Education
- Master’s or bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field; or equivalent experience.
About the job
Leads system-level debugging, root-cause analysis, and defect-reduction work for large-scale datacenter hardware systems.
What you'll do
- Execute end-to-end system debugging and lead root-cause analysis with hardware, firmware, and software teams.
- Develop at-scale debug methodologies, test strategies, and automation to improve debug efficiency and reduce defects.
- Recommend diagnostic and debug technologies, and communicate initiative plans and progress to stakeholders using data.
What they ask for
- Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field and 3+ years of technical engineering experience; or bachelor’s degree in one of these fields and 5+ years; or equivalent experience.
- Active U.S. Government Top Secret Clearance with access to SCI, based on an SSBI with Polygraph.
- Meet required Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screenings, including a Microsoft Cloud background check.
- U.S. citizenship, subject to verification.
Nice to have
- Doctorate plus 3+ years, master’s plus 6+ years, or bachelor’s plus 8+ years of technical engineering experience; or equivalent experience.
- Experience with computer architecture, datacenter or cloud systems, platform-level debug and validation, or large-scale data analytics.
Pay
USD $119,800 - $234,700 per year (base salary); USD $160,200 - $261,000 per year (base salary) for San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area locations.
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