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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 Artificial Intelligence System on Chip (AISoC) 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 seeking engineers to help achieve this mission by managing and optimizing cloud infrastructure.

Responsibilities

Technically lead a pre-silicon verification team for the development of custom IP components with focus on architectural and micro-architectural based functions and features.
Interact with architects and design engineers to create testplans covering verification strategy, test requirements, and test environments for IP verification.
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.
Collaborate across verification teams on vertical and horizontal reuse of components.
Define and implement functional coverage and drive coverage closure.
Triage and debug testbench, simulation, and emulation fails.
Write makefiles and scripts for verification infrastructure.
Apply Agile development methodologies including code reviews, sprint planning, and feature deployment.
Provide technical leadership through mentorship and strong teamwork.

Requirements

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.
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements.
Microsoft Cloud Background Check required upon hire or transfer and every two years thereafter.
Must provide proof of country of citizenship or U.S. permanent residency or other protected status 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

Verification for multiple product cycles from definition to Silicon
Writing test plans
Developing tests
Debugging failures
Coverage signoff in C++ and Universal Verification Methodology (UVM)
Debugging Register Transfer Level (RTL) designs
Debugging simulation and/or emulation environments
Lead roles across cross-functional / cross-time-zone engineering teams
Verification lead experience for an IP or SS related to CPUs, VPUs, GPUs, Direct Memory Access (DMA) engine, Tensor unit, or similar
Working on Artificial Intelligence (AI) / Machine Learning (ML) SoCs
Scripting language such as Python or Perl
Formal property verification

Location

U.S.

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Principal
12+ years of experience in design verification
5+ years experience with lead roles

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.

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.