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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 team focuses on smart growth, high efficiency, and delivering a trusted experience to customers and partners worldwide. This role is crucial for defining and delivering operational measures of success for hardware manufacturing, improving planning processes, quality, delivery, scale, and sustainability related to Microsoft cloud hardware.
Responsibilities
- Responsible for Physical Design tasks at block, sub-chip, and/or full-chip level including design planning, synthesis, placement, clock tree synthesis, custom clocking, static timing analysis, physical verification, IR drop & EM check and formal equivalence checks.
- Responsible for delivering high-quality Electromigration and IR drop sign off modeling methodology and driving overall EMIR convergence strategies.
- Analyze and drive Static Timing Analysis violations and its convergence.
- Deliver best-in-class place and route (PNR) strategies, especially on congestion and timing challenging blocks.
- Work with limited direction, have keen attention to detail, and provide crisp status of progress, issues, and risks to the management team.
- Occasional travel may be required.
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.
- 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 either proof of country of citizenship or proof of US residency or other protected status for assessment of eligibility to access export-controlled information.
- Must verify citizenship with a valid passport. Lawful permanent residents, refugees, and asylees may verify status using other documents, where applicable.
Skills
- Physical Design
- Synthesis
- Placement
- Clock tree synthesis
- Custom clocking
- Static timing analysis
- Physical verification
- IR drop & EM check
- Formal equivalence checks
- Electromigration and IR drop sign off modeling
- Place and route (PNR)
- EDA vendor tools such as RHSC, Star-RC, Fusion Compiler, VCLP, Primetime, Formality, or Cadence Innovus and Conformal
Location
- U.S.
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Physical Design Engineer II
- 1+ year(s) technical engineering experience (with Master's Degree)
- 2+ years technical engineering experience (with Bachelor's Degree)
- 4+ years of experience in Physical Design, especially in synthesis, place and route (PNR) and signoff (Preferred)
- 4+ years of hands-on experience in EDA vendor tools (Preferred)
- 2+ years technical engineering experience (with Doctorate Degree) (Preferred)
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
- Doctorate in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field (Preferred)
Salary/Compensations
- USD $102,100 - $202,200 per year (U.S. base pay range)
- USD $133,800 - $219,200 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.