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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 & Manufacturing Engineering (CSME) organization designs, develops, manufactures, and packages Microsoft's computer chips, including Azure Cobalt. This role is crucial for defining and delivering operational measures of success for hardware manufacturing, improving planning, quality, delivery, scale, and sustainability for Microsoft cloud hardware.
Responsibilities
- Drive end-to-end execution from synthesis through place-and-route for large designs, ensuring completion of all signoff stages including timing, physical verification, EMIR, formal equivalence, and low-power verification.
- Responsible for clock construction and CTS.
- Drive methodology exploration activities to optimize SOC blocks for clock construction and related methodology.
- Coordinate with CAD, RTL/Design teams/DFT, Architecture team, Power & Performance team, Technology team & other internal/external partners.
- Responsible for RTL to GDS implementation in Physical Design domain.
- Influence design tools, flows, and methodologies in construction, signoff, and optimization through a data-driven approach.
- Foster collaboration across teams to deliver solutions, aligned with a One Microsoft mindset.
- Demonstrate technical expertise across various domains of Physical Design.
- Provide clear communications on project status & planning.
- Demonstrate Microsoft core values: Customer Focus, Adaptability, Collaboration, Growth Mindset, Drive for Results, Influence for Impact, Judgement, and Diversity & Inclusion.
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.
- Requires access to export-controlled information; requires proof of U.S. citizenship, residency, or protected status for eligibility assessment.
- Requires verification of citizenship with a valid passport; lawful permanent residents, refugees, and asylees may verify status using other documents.
Skills
- Semiconductor design
- Communication skills
- Collaboration skills
- Teamwork skills
- Physical Design implementation
- Synthesis
- Floorplanning
- Place and route
- Extraction
- Timing signoff
- Physical verification
- Production silicon tape-outs
- Advanced foundry process nodes
- Low power design methodology for SOC
- SOC or subsystem design trade-offs (power, performance, area)
- Clock construction strategies for high speed designs
- RTL to GDS implementation
- Problem-solving skills
- Data analysis skills
Location
- U.S.
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
- 7+ years of experience in semiconductor design (preferred)
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 or Computer Engineering or any related degree (preferred)
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.