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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 AI Silicon 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. We are seeking experienced engineers with a passion for customer-focused solutions and industry knowledge to envision and implement future technical solutions for cloud infrastructure management and optimization.
Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership throughout all phases of ASIC and SoC development, with primary focus on early architecture definition and specification of Network-on-Chip (NoC), memory/interconnect subsystems for high-performance AI and compute SoCs.
- Define system-level address maps, memory hierarchy, and SoC connectivity.
- Translate product performance objectives into scalable NoC, memory, and data movement architectures.
- Drive technical evaluations and provide recommendations for third-party IP, silicon technologies, and vendor solutions, balancing performance, power, area, schedule, and risk considerations.
- Partner with performance modeling and analysis teams to define performance requirements, develop architectural models, and identify system bottlenecks early in the design cycle.
- Collaborate closely with hardware, firmware, software, and system architecture teams to ensure architectural alignment and successful feature integration.
- Guide design and verification teams throughout development, ensuring implementation fidelity to architectural intent and requirements.
- Support pre-silicon validation, post-silicon bring-up, and performance characterization activities to ensure delivered features meet functional and performance goals.
- Drive cross-functional technical reviews, resolve complex architectural issues, and provide leadership on critical design tradeoffs and system-level decisions.
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.
- Must pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
- Must provide proof of citizenship or US residency for assessment of eligibility to access export-controlled information.
- Verification of citizenship with a valid passport or other documents for lawful permanent residents, refugees, and asylees.
Skills
- Architecture definition
- Specification of Network-on-Chip (NoC)
- Memory/interconnect subsystems
- High-performance AI and compute SoCs
- System-level address maps
- Memory hierarchy
- SoC connectivity
- Performance modeling
- Architectural models
- Hardware design
- Firmware design
- Software design
- System architecture
- Pre-silicon validation
- Post-silicon bring-up
- Performance characterization
- On-chip interconnect
- Caches and cache coherency
- SOC used in data center
- Security
- Die-to-die interconnect
- Debug
- Telemetry
- Boot/reset
- RAS
Location
- U.S.
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Principal
- 10+ years of architecture and design experience in large scale SoC
- 3+ years technical engineering experience (Doctorate)
- 6+ years technical engineering experience (Master's)
- 8+ years technical engineering experience (Bachelor's)
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)
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.