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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. SCHIE focuses on smart growth, high efficiency, and delivering a trusted experience to customers and partners worldwide. The Compute Silicon & Manufacturing Engineering (CSME) organization within SCHIE designs, develops, manufactures, and packages Microsoft's computer chips, including the Azure Cobalt. This 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
- Responsible for product and test engineering activities supporting new product development and manufacturing.
- Contribute to silicon bring-up, validation, and manufacturing readiness while working closely with cross-functional partners.
- Support semiconductor IC development across fabrication, manufacturing test, and packaging phases.
- Contribute to ATE test program development, including test method implementation, test bring-up, silicon characterization, debug, and yield analysis for embedded memories.
- Execute defined test plans and methodologies while identifying issues and escalating risks with clear technical data.
- Apply working knowledge of Design-for-Test (DFT), silicon fabrication processes, product qualification and reliability, and basic transistor theory.
- Collaborate with design, DFT, product, and manufacturing teams to support memory test readiness and issue resolution.
- Gain exposure to product domains such as high-performance computing, AI, GPUs, and telecom, as applicable to assigned projects.
- Support DFT test content generation, pre-silicon validation, and post-silicon debug activities.
- Work with Design DFT teams to support simulation and emulation activities for test validation.
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.
- Must pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
- Must provide proof of country of citizenship or US 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
- Design-for-Test (DFT)
- Silicon fabrication processes
- Product qualification
- Reliability
- Basic transistor theory
- ATE test program development
- Silicon characterization
- Debug
- Yield analysis
- High-performance computing
- AI
- GPUs
- Telecom
- Pre-silicon validation
- Post-silicon debug
- Simulation
- Emulation
- Probability
- Statistics
- DOE concepts
- DFM techniques
- Silicon bring-up
- ATE platforms (e.g., Advantest 93K)
- Optical test and characterization
- Silicon photonics
- Optical device validation
- Basic device physics
- Adaptability
- Curiosity
- Constructive problem-solving
- Growth Mindset
- Computer architecture
- Unit testing
- Integration testing
- Linux-based environments
- Debugging and optimizing software used in test or validation flows
- Customer-focused mindset
- Attention to quality and execution
- Ability to deliver results on assigned tasks with guidance
- Sound technical judgment in scoping and resolving well-defined problems
Location
- U.S.
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
- 5+ years of experience in integrated circuit development, including pre-silicon, first silicon bring-up, or new product introduction.
- 5+ years of experience in product and test engineering, with hands-on exposure to ATE test program development, bring-up, and debug.
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 $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.
- The Compute Silicon & Manufacturing Engineering (CSME) organization within SCHIE is responsible for design, development, manufacturing and packaging of Microsoft's state-of-the-art computer chips, notably the Azure Cobalt.
- Our solutions provide sustainable strategic advantage to Microsoft and enable our customers to achieve more.
- 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.
- To achieve this goal, the Silicon Manufacturing and Packaging Engineering 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.