Overview
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 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 CHSE Cloud Hardware Systems Engineering 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 experienced 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 Principal Lab Architect based in Taiwan to define how ODM engineering and lab capabilities integrate with Microsoft’s global cloud-hardware development and validation ecosystem. You will establish technical architectures, interface standards, readiness criteria, and cross-site design patterns for product bring-up, validation, and qualification. Join a growing team helping scale the Azure Cloud at Microsoft.
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Responsibilities
- Own the Taiwan-based architecture that integrates ODM engineering and lab capabilities with Microsoft’s global cloud-hardware lab network, improving bring-up, validation, qualification, and deployment readiness across sites.
- Engage ODM, Microsoft engineering, and lab teams early to translate product architecture, deployment plans, validation scope, schedules, and dependencies into clear cross-site lab requirements.
- Define the target-state architecture for integrating ODM capabilities across Microsoft’s international lab network. Identify capability and interface gaps, establish technical standards, and recommend investment priorities.
- Serve as the architect for Taiwan and international lab stakeholders, making cross-domain technical decisions, resolving design conflicts, and documenting tradeoffs and recommendations.
- Define reusable reference architectures, interface requirements, readiness criteria, and technical-handoff standards for cloud-hardware bring-up, validation, and qualificat
