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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. The Silicon Manufacturing and Product Engineering (SMPE) team defines and delivers operational measures of success for hardware manufacturing, improving planning, quality, delivery, scale, and sustainability. This Debug Engineer role is key to the Maia & Cobalt silicon programs, focusing on silicon debug, FA/FI, and debug tool readiness.

Responsibilities

Execution on silicon debug, FA/FI and debug tool readiness.
Experience in silicon debug, design collateral procurement, readiness for physical/electrical debug tools and physical FA readiness.
Experience in semiconductor debug, fault isolation, failure analysis and product engineering yield debug.
Developing new silicon debug methodologies for all test content types in the MFG flow.
Root-cause analysis of key product issues, circuit marginalities, and special circuit failures, translating them into corrective actions in design, methodologies, or MFG test flow.
Debugging product issues on ATE and using analytical equipment to isolate failures.
Strong project leadership skills to manage external vendors, drive cross-functional teams, and manage sub-projects.

Requirements

Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 1+ year(s) technical engineering experience OR Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 2+ years technical engineering experience OR equivalent experience.
3+ years of experience in Developing Integrated Circuits (pre-silicon, first silicon bring-up, new product introduction).
3+ years of experience in product and test engineering, specializing in ATE Test or silicon debug or FA/FI.
3+ years of experience building debug methodology solutions for complex state-of-the-art SoC in advanced process nodes.
Experience with System-level debug and correlation to ATE.
Presentation and communication skills.
Probability & statistics background including DOE’s.
Knowledgeable in DFT and DFM techniques.
Understanding of bring-up/debug, characterization/manufacturing test (on ATEs).
Device physics background.
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.

Skills

Silicon debug
FA/FI
Debug tool readiness
Semiconductor debug
Fault isolation
Failure analysis
Product engineering yield debug
ATE
Analytical equipment
System-level debug
DFT
DFM
Bring-up/debug
Characterization/manufacturing test

Location

U.S.

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

1+ year(s) technical engineering experience (Master's degree)
2+ years technical engineering experience (Bachelor's degree)
3+ years of experience in Developing Integrated Circuits
3+ years of experience in product and test engineering
3+ years of experience building debug methodology solutions

Education Level

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 $102,100 - $202,200 per year (U.S. typical base pay range)
USD $133,800 - $219,200 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 advantages 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 Product Engineering (SMPE) team is instrumental in defining and elivering 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 engineers with a dedicated passion for customer focused solutions, insight and industry knowledge to envision and implement future technical solutions that will manage and optimize the Cloud infrastructure.

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.