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About the Role

Microsoft Silicon, Cloud Hardware, and Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE) is responsible for powering Microsoft’s “Intelligent Cloud” mission by delivering core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's online businesses. The Compute Silicon and Manufacturing Engineering (CSME) 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 a Senior SoC Performance Verification Engineer to join the team.

Responsibilities

Own a novel performance verification endeavor, driving methodology for current and future Cobalt programs.
Work with performance, IP, and SoC architects to identify and correlate on key performance indicators.
Become knowledgeable on the overall SoC architecture, understanding performance-critical datapaths and configurations.
Develop verification strategy, test plans, requirements, environments, tools, and methodologies.
Create performance tests, debug correlation mismatches to root cause, and recommend fixes.
Engage with partners to drive continuous improvement to design, verification plans/collateral, and methodology.
Mentor and coach team members.
Collaborate with and influence architects, logic designers, post-silicon validators, other verification engineers, and IP and tool providers.

Requirements

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements.
Must pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
Requires access to information controlled for export under export control regulations.
Successful candidate will be required to provide proof of country of citizenship or US residency for assessment of eligibility to access export-controlled information.
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.

Skills

Performance verification
SoC architecture
Verification strategy
Test plans
Verification environments
Verification tools
Verification methodologies
Performance tests
Debugging
System Verilog/UVM
C/C++
Emulation platforms
CPU architecture
Coherent and non-coherent fabric IPs and protocols
ARM standard architectures and protocols

Location

U.S.

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Senior
1+ year(s) technical engineering experience (with Doctorate)
4+ years technical engineering experience (with Master's Degree)
5+ years technical engineering experience (with Bachelor's Degree)
6+ years of experience working on Computer Architecture and SoC design and verification principles

Education Level

Doctorate in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field
Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field
Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field
BS/MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science or related degree

Salary/Compensations

USD $119,800 - $234,700 per year (U.S. typical base pay range)
USD $160,200 - $261,000 per year (San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area)

Benefits

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.

About the Company

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.

Equal Opportunity

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.