Microsoft
Principal Product Engineer
$143K–$304K
Redmond, WA +3 · On-site · Principal · Full-time · Posted Nov 3, 2026
- Location
- Redmond, WA
Mountain View, CA
Austin, TX
Hillsboro, OR - Experience
- Doctorate plus 3+ years, master's degree plus 6+ years, bachelor's degree plus 8+ years of technical engineering experience, or equivalent experience. Preferred: 8+ years in product development/manufacturing; 8+ years in IC development; 5+ years in product and test engineering and ATE test program development/debug.
- Education
- Doctorate, master's, or bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
About the job
Leads product and test engineering for semiconductor chips from product definition through launch, including silicon bring-up, manufacturing optimization, and performance tuning.
What you'll do
- Drive pre- and post-silicon power and performance readiness, testing, and tuning with platform teams.
- Implement and optimize ATE test programs and manufacturing fuse requirements, including end-to-end data flow.
- Lead cross-functional projects and coordinate with external vendors to deliver product development and manufacturing outcomes.
What they ask for
- Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- Experience in semiconductor IC development, manufacturing, fabrication, testing, and packaging.
- Knowledge of ATE test program development, including test method development, bring-up, characterization, debug, and yield analysis.
- Ability to meet Microsoft Cloud Background Check and export-control eligibility requirements.
Nice to have
- Product development and manufacturing experience with large-scale, high-performance, or high-power SoCs/chips; IC development and product/test engineering experience.
- Advantest V93K experience; experience leading cross-functional teams, managing vendors or supply chains, and working with platform validation.
Pay
USD $142,800 - $274,800 per year (base salary); USD $188,000 - $304,200 per year (base salary)
Tools
ATE, Advantest V93K, LDOs, Integrated VRs, DFT, SoCs, GPUs, CPUs
AI focus
Product engineering for high-performance chips, including chips for AI workloads.
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