Cloud Principal Hardware Engineer

Quick Facts

• Role: Cloud Principal Hardware Engineer (AFPD)

Description

Lead hardware failure analysis and hands-on hardware resiliency for Azure’s Fault Prediction and Detection (AFPD) platform, scaling predictive detection and targeted repairs across the Azure hardware fleet. Work across the full server platform to improve hardware reliability, isolate failure sources more accurately, and prevent customer disruptions at massive scale. Collaborate with Azure engineering, component teams, software engineers, and data scientists to set precision targets and validation gates before automated actions run in production.

Responsibilities

• Lead failure analysis across server components using fleet telemetry and logs, and confirm root cause with repair outcomes and supplier failure analysis

• Define detection signals, thresholds, targeted diagnostics, and repair recipes; partner with component teams on root cause analysis

• Improve isolation accuracy so each repair addresses the source of failures

• Partner with software engineers and data scientists on detection rules and prediction models; set precision targets and validation gates

• Use AI-powered tools and data-driven insights to analyze failures, identify emerging reliability trends, and proactively improve performance and availability

• Lead root cause and corrective actions with server components, including firmware fixes, and feed learnings back into AFPD

• Serve as senior hardware escalation point for live-site incidents from triage through root cause to fleet-wide mitigation

• Make new server generations and AI/GPU platforms production-ready with detection, isolation, and repair coverage at launch

• Track and improve metrics and mentor engineers

Requirements

• Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 7+ years technical engineering experience OR Bachelor’s degree AND 8+ years technical engineering experience OR equivalent experience

• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including passing the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years

Benefits

• Eligible for benefits and other compensation (role-dependent)

• Minimum 5-day application window; applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled