Senior Supply Chain Engineer

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.

The Compute Silicon & Manufacturing Engineering (CSME) organization within SCHIE is responsible for design, development, manufacturing and packaging of Microsoft's state-of-the-art computer chips, notably the Azure Cobalt. Our solutions provide sustainable strategic advantage to Microsoft and enable our customers to achieve more.

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 Silicon, Manufacturing, and Packaging Engineering (SMPE) 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 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 Senior Supply Chain Engineer to join the team.

The candidate for this position will be expected and able to complete the following responsibilities:

• Partner closely with end-to-end IC supply chain stakeholders, including foundries, OSATs, and key component suppliers, to enable successful New Product Introductions (NPIs) across complex, multi-generation silicon programs
• Develop and manage supplier engagements and execute Statements of Work (SOWs), quotations, commercial agreements, and contract-related activities while ensuring compliance with established controls, governance, and procurement processes. Negotiate competetitive pricing and favorable commercial terms to improve overall business value
• Drive adherence to established controls and governance by ensuring decision traceability, documentation integrity, action closure and compliance to support audit readiness
• Manage Purchase Order process and reconcile against approved budgets, supplier quotations, invoices and actual spend. Track commitments, variances on a quarterly basis to identify variances and drive timely resolution with cross-functional stakeholders to maintain budget accountabilty against forecasted spend
• Drive predictable supply chain outcomes by engineering and executing scalable supply solutions that support business objectives, program milestones, and operational readiness
• Develop and influence supply strategies and plans by analyzing supply-demand dynamics, evaluating "what-if" scenarios, conducting impact assessments, and driving contingency planning to mitigate business risks
• Leverage data, tools, and analytics to identify risks, drive operational improvements, and enable decision-making through dashboards, reporting with mitigation plans to stakeholders and leadership by applying standardized supply chain processes.
• Lead change management efforts by driving adoption of new tools, processes, and capabilities that improve supply chain scalability, efficiency, and execution excellence
• Build and maintain strong supplier partnerships by removing execution roadblocks, reviewing capacity readiness, ensuring compliance, and enabling long-term supply continuity
• Serve as the interface between suppliers and internal stakeholders, communicating status, simplifying complex technical and business topics, and facilitating informed decision-making across the organization. Work across engineering, finance, sourcing, and suppliers to align, drive execution, resolve issues, and deliver against program commitments

Required Qualifications:

• Doctorate in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 1+ year(s) technical engineering experience OR Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience OR Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 5+ years technical engineering experience OR equivalent experience.

Screening 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
• This role will require access to information that is controlled for export under export control regulations, potentially under the U.S. International Traffic in Arms Regulations or Export Administration Regulations, the EU Dual Use Regulation, and/or other export control regulations.  As a condition of employment, the successful candidate will be required to provide either proof of their country of citizenship or proof of their US. residency or other protected status (e.g., under 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)) for assessment of eligibility to access the export-controlled information. To meet this legal requirement, and as a condition of employment, the successful candidate’s citizenship will be verified with a valid passport. Lawful permanent residents, refugees, and asylees may verify status using other documents, where applicable

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's Degree in Supply Chain Management, Business, Engineering, or related field AND 8+ years experience in end-to-end supply chain processes (e.g., planning, sourcing, logistics, fulfillment) and working across functions to deliver program outcomes, or related field OR equivalent experience
• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Supply Chain Management, Operations Management, Supply Chain Analytics, or related field AND 5+ years experience in end-to-end supply chain planning processes (e.g., planning, sourcing, logistics, fulfillment) and working across functions to deliver program outcomes 
  • OR Master's Degree in Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Supply Chain Management, Business, Operations Management, Supply Chain Analytics, or related field AND 1+ year(s) supply planning, operations, supply chain, indirect supply planning, technology-related supply chain and manufacturing
  • OR equivalent experience
• Doctorate in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 3+ years technical engineering experience OR Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience OR Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience OR equivalent experience.
• Experience working in the semiconductor industry including suppliers in Foundry, OSAT, Substrate, and Test and managing supply chain, vendors / partners for Integrated Circuit production
• Excellent influencing skills with ability to build relationships across multiple layers in the organization
• Deep analytical capabilities and ability to synthesize data to influence leadership decision making
• Ability to navigate in ambiguous situations by being flexible and adaptable to achieve desired outcomes

Silicon Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 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 $160,200 - $261,000 per year.