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Job overview
Microsoft’s Silicon Manufacturing and Product Engineering team is seeking a Debug Engineer to support its Maia and Cobalt silicon programs. The role focuses on silicon debug, failure analysis, fault isolation, and product engineering yield debug, while developing debug methodologies for manufacturing test flows. The engineer will investigate product and circuit issues, translate findings into corrective actions, and coordinate vendors and cross-functional teams.
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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 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 advantages 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 Product Engineering (SMPE) team is instrumental in defining and elivering 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 Debug Engineer to join the team to support our mission as a key role with Maia & Cobalt silicon programs.
#SCHIE #CSME #SMPE
Responsibilities
The candidate for this position will be expected and able to complete the following responsibilities:
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This is a Hands-on role that responsible for execution on silicon debug, FA/FI and debug tool readiness
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The candidate should have experience silicon debug, design collateral procurement, readiness for physical/electrical debug tools and physical FA readiness
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The position requires someone with experience in semiconductor debug, fault isolation, failure analysis and product engineering yield debug
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The candidate will be responsible for developing new silicon debug methodologies for all test content types in our MFG flow
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The candidate will also be involved in root-cause of key product issues, circuit marginalities, special circuit failures and translate them into corrective actions in the design, our design methodologies and/or the MFG test flow
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Successful candidates have deep understanding and experience debugging product issues on ATE and using analytical equipment to isolate failures
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Deep understanding of best-in class silicon debug tools and methodologies is a must
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Successful candidates should have strong project leadership skills to manage external vendors, drive cross functional teams and drive sub-project as part of larger development programs
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
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Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 1+ year(s) technical engineering experience
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OR Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 2+ years technical engineering experience
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OR equivalent experience
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Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements is required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to, the following specialized security screening:
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Microsoft Cloud Background Check. This position is required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire or transfer and every two years thereafter.
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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 U.S. permanent 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.
Firmware Engineering IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $102,100 - $202,200 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 $133,800 - $219,200 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
This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations. (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html)
How this job compares
Set against the 5,320 open Manufacturing Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 12, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$134–219K/yr
- California median$115–172K/yr841 salary ranges
- US median$95–141K/yr3,113 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $177K, is 24% above the California median midpoint ($143K) — in the top quarter of Manufacturing Engineer salary ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 984 open Manufacturing Engineer jobs in California and 5,320 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in California
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 1 year of experience — less than three in four Manufacturing Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for (median 3 years, across 4,220 postings).
- Education
- 2,916 of the 5,320 open Manufacturing Engineer jobs (55%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 12, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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