Senior Electrical Engineer
Microsoft
Other Engineering
USD 119,800-234,700 / year
Posted on Sep 30, 2025
Senior Electrical Engineer
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Date posted
Sep 29, 2025
Job number
1883889
Work site
3 days / week in-office
Travel
0-25 %
Role type
Individual Contributor
Profession
Hardware Engineering
Discipline
Electrical Engineering
Employment type
Full-Time
Overview
Are you passionate about building innovative devices and technologies that make a real impact? Join the Surface Team in Redmond, where we design and build devices that empower every person and every organization to achieve more. Our mission is to create desirable, high-performance products that deliver exceptional user experiences. This work is made possible through close collaboration between hardware and software engineers, designers, and manufacturing experts. We’re building the next generation of Surface devices—and we’d love for you to be part of it.
As a Senior Electrical Engineer on the Surface Hardware team, you’ll play a critical role in ensuring our devices meet the highest standards of quality and performance. You’ll work across disciplines to validate and integrate hardware components, especially user input systems like touchpads, touchscreens, pens, sensors, and keyboards. Your work will directly impact the customer experience and help shape the future of Surface products.
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.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
- Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field AND 3+ years technical engineering experience
- OR Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field AND 5+ years technical engineering experience
- OR equivalent experience.
- 4+ years of experience in hardware, firmware, or software development or testing.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with User Input Technologies: Familiarity with developing or validating input devices such as touchscreens, touchpads, keyboards, pens, and other user interfaces.
- Debugging and Problem-Solving Skills: Ability to troubleshoot modern multiprocessor systems, write and debug code, and use hardware-level debuggers and diagnostic tools.
- Effective Communication: Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to clearly explain technical concepts and collaborate across diverse teams.
- Test Automation: Experience designing and implementing test automation scripts using C#, Python, or other object-oriented programming languages.
Electrical 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 $158,400 - $258,000 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 October 6th, 2025.
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Responsibilities
- Design Validation: Collaborate with the hardware quality team to validate full-featured, high-performance, and robust hardware designs.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with software engineers, electrical engineers, mechanical engineers, architects, and program managers to deliver innovative solutions.
- User Input Systems Support: Contribute to the development and integration of user input technologies (e.g. touchpad, touch, keyboard) across Surface devices.
- Debugging and Optimization: Identify and resolve integration issues to ensure seamless functionality between hardware and software components.
- Automation and Test Development: Create or update automation scripts and test fixtures (mechanical, electrical, and software) to reproduce and stress low-frequency bugs.
- Customer Impact Analysis: Translate technical bug details into clear explanations of how they affect customer experience.
Other
Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.
Industry leading healthcare
Educational resources
Discounts on products and services
Savings and investments
Maternity and paternity leave
Generous time away
Giving programs
Opportunities to network and connect
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 and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.