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Posted date: Aug 08, 2025
Category: Hardware Engineering
Location: Redmond, WA
Estimated salary: $158,000
Range: $100,600 - $215,400
Employment type: Full-Time
Travel amount: 25.0%
Work location type: Up to 50% work from home
Role: Individual Contributor
Description
The Surface Team builds powerful devices that fully express the Windows vision, enable the experiences people want, and elicit their excitement. Creating these devices involves a close partnership between hardware and software engineers, designers, and manufacturing.The Surface Team is hiring an Electrical Engineer II to help build the next generation of Surface! As an Electrical Engineer II on the Surface Quality Design Verification System Engineering (DVSE) team, you would get the opportunity to create and execute on camera hardware design validation solutions across the Surface device portfolio.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.
Develop comprehensive camera design verification strategies and plans bridging high-level customer experience use cases to product architecture/design to effectively and systematically reveal and verify design and production defects.Provide critical analysis of test data and drive the right solutions, design changes, and trade-offs in the context of business priorities.Create and introduce innovative test techniques and methods to ensure robust product qualification.Utilize your knowledge of critical performance data and your statistical data analysis techniques to set product test requirements and limits.Develop test methodologies and plans, execute test procedures, debug/bring-up and project-manage qualification cycles. Improves work based on insights and lessons learned related to camera quality and minimizing issues in current and future projects.Work closely with camera hardware, Image Quality and software engineers, product managers, module suppliers, manufacturing test and reliability to ensure end customer delight with Surface camera experiences. Contributes to work with partner teams to support the application of testing plans and methodologies across groups.Identify critical performance metrics and apply statistical data analysis techniques to define manufacturing test requirements and limits related to camera signal quality.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field AND 1+ year(s) technical engineering experienceOR Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field AND 2+ years technical engineering experienceOR equivalent experience.
Experience in developing camera test solutions at module or system level to verify any of the following: electrical, mechanical, power consumption or thermal performance.Experience with scripting and/or programming language (PowerShell, C#, C++, Python, etc.).
Experience in writing test documentation including test plans, procedures, and reports.
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:
Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field AND 3+ year(s) technical engineering experienceOR Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field AND 5+ years technical engineering experienceOR equivalent experience.Experience communicating and collaborating effectively, including the ability to clearly express technical concepts in verbal and written forms.Working experience with high-speed electrical interfaces (MIPI and USB 2.0/3.0), and low-speed serial control interfaces (I2C and SPI) to ensure camera signal quality and stability.Experience in schematic and board layout review, as well as an understanding of PCB layout principles, including high speed signal integrity, power integrity, de-sense, DFM, etc.
Electrical Engineering IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $100,600 - $199,000 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $131,400 - $215,400 per year.
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
Microsoft will accept applications for the role until August 22, 2025.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.
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