Senior Supply Chain Engineer

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In short

Microsoft is hiring a Senior Supply Chain Engineer to manage end-to-end IC supply chain operations for cloud hardware, focusing on New Product Introductions (NPIs) and supplier engagements. The role involves driving supply strategies, managing procurement, and ensuring operational excellence to support Microsoft's growing cloud infrastructure.

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 competitive 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 accountability 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.

Requirements

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.
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements.
Possession of a valid passport for citizenship verification is required.

Desired 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.
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.
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.

Benefits

Access to information controlled for export under export control regulations.
Potential for benefits and other compensation are described at https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay.

Skills

Supply Chain ManagementProcurementIC Supply ChainFoundryOSATIntegrated Circuit

#Supply Chain#Silicon Engineering#Hardware Engineering#Cloud Infrastructure

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