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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. We are seeking passionate engineers to help achieve our goals of smart growth, high efficiency, and delivering a trusted experience to customers and partners worldwide. This Principal Verification Engineer role is crucial for defining and delivering operational measures of success for hardware manufacturing, improving planning, quality, delivery, scale, and sustainability related to Microsoft cloud hardware.
Responsibilities
- Establish yourself as an integral member of a design verification team for the development of AI components with focus on verifying functions and features.
- Lead a pre-silicon verification team for the development of custom Intellectual Property (IP) and Subsystem (SS) components with focus on architectural and micro-architectural based functions and features.
- Collaborate with the architecture and design teams to ensure the implementation meets both architectural and micro-architectural intent.
- Write, execute, enhance, and debug constrained random stimulus, scoreboards and checkers, and assertions to verify design correctness.
- Develop Universal Verification Methodology (UVM) components to interface between test code and verification simulation environments.
- Apply Agile development methodologies including code reviews, sprint planning, and feature deployment.
- Provide technical leadership through mentorship and teamwork.
- Demonstrate Microsoft core values: Customer Focus, Adaptability, Collaboration, Growth Mindset, Drive for Results, Influence for Impact, Judgement, and Diversity & Inclusion.
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 citizenship or residency for assessment of eligibility to access export-controlled information.
- Citizenship will be verified with a valid passport.
- Lawful permanent residents, refugees, and asylees may verify status using other documents.
Skills
- Design verification
- AI components verification
- Custom Intellectual Property (IP) and Subsystem (SS) components verification
- Architectural and micro-architectural verification
- Constrained random stimulus
- Scoreboards and checkers
- Assertions
- Universal Verification Methodology (UVM)
- Agile development methodologies
- Code reviews
- Sprint planning
- Feature deployment
- Mentorship
- Teamwork
- Customer Focus
- Adaptability
- Collaboration
- Growth Mindset
- Drive for Results
- Influence for Impact
- Judgement
- Diversity & Inclusion
- Complex Central Processing Unit(CPU), Graphics Processing Unit(GPU) or System on Chip(SoC) IPs verification
- Complex Application Specific Integrated Circuits(ASIC) or System on Chip(SOC) verification
- Interconnect fabrics
- Network on Chip(NOCs)
- AXI protocol base other complex IP/blocks or subsystems
- AI/Machine Learning (ML) SoCs
- Verification and debug principles
- Testbenches
- C based test environments
- Writing assertions
- Coverage
- Formal verification
- Industry standard bus interfaces
- Advanced Microcontroller Bus Architecture (AMBA) Advanced eXtensible Interface (AXI) protocols
- Debugging RTL (Verilog) designs
- Simulation and/or emulation environments
- Scripting languages (Zsh, Bash, Python or Perl)
- Proficient communication
- Collaboration
- Teamwork skills
Location
- U.S.
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Principal
- Doctorate in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 3+ years technical engineering experience
- Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience
- Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience
- Equivalent experience
- 10+ years of industry experience in design verification with a track record of delivering complex Central Processing Unit(CPU), Graphics Processing Unit(GPU) or System on Chip(SoC) IPs.
- 8+ years of industry experience in design verification with a delivering complex Application Specific Integrated Circuits(ASIC) or System on Chip(SOC).
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
Salary/Compensations
- USD $142,800 - $274,800 per year (U.S. typical base pay range)
- USD $188,000 - $304,200 per year (San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area base pay range)
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.
- 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.
- The AISiE 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.
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.