Responsibilities

• Develop and execute reliability qualification plans based on product lifecycle requirements while interfacing with design and manufacturing partners and external suppliers 
• Develop, with other functional disciplines, customer usage models and translate understanding of the customer into practical reliability test specifications 
• Use statistical analysis to provide meaning to reliability test data along with determining trends or problem areas. 
• Participate in component vendor selection activity and drive component qualification activity for components that are critical to Microsoft product requirements 

• Use knowledge of manufacturing process capability as well as system-level performance requirements to establish Critical-to-Reliability performance metrics 
• Through lab sampling and analysis, monitor product performance in the field, understand product issues and drive failure analysis and corrective action with the appropriate partner engineering teams 

Qualifications

• Masters or PhD in Materials Engineering or equivalent 
• 10 years’ experience in a professional engineering laboratory environment and background in reliability testing and analysis.  
• Deep understanding of statistical sampling methods. 
•  Deep understanding of root cause/corrective action methods to identify contributing factors of production defects. 
• Understands server microprocessor architectures, including the operation of related subsystems, interfaces, and components. 
• In Depth knowledge of reliability test methods. 
• In Depth knowledge in the physics of failure for ASIC, PCB assembled materials 
• In Depth knowledge of AC/DC, DC/DC power architectures.   
• In Depth knowledge of industry reliability test methods and controls.   
• In depth knowledge of server components. 
• Able to communicate effectively in written and oral manner, so that all stakeholders have clear understanding of issues and metrics 
• Can use and apply complex statistics to evaluate product reliability and highlight potential product risks 
• Has strong communication and project management skills 

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