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About the Role

The AI Silicon Engineering (AISiE) SoC Design Verification team verifies Microsoft’s latest AI accelerators. This role involves architecting and driving complex pre-silicon verification, including SoC security verification, for Microsoft’s AI accelerators from block to chip and system level through post-silicon validation.

Responsibilities

Create complex verification environments and tests, driving pre-silicon functional verification at the block, chip, and system level, reference modeling, and post-silicon validation.
Interact with architects and design engineers to create verification plans covering strategy, test environments and tests, and verification requirements for IP, subsystem, and SoC level verification, then create and drive test plans and test development to provide complete feature coverage.
Define SoC security architecture and threat models, including secure boot, root of trust, identity, isolation, privilege, debug, lifecycle, and recovery.
Develop verification components such as scoreboards, sequences, constraints, assertions, and functional coverage, along with Makefiles and scripts for scalable and efficient verification.
Develop and implement technical solutions to complex quality and design challenges, and triage and debug testbench, simulation, and emulation failures.
Apply Agile development methodologies, including code reviews, sprint planning, and frequent deployment, and collaborate with teams across sites and geographies.

Requirements

Doctorate in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 7+ years technical engineering experience OR Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 10+ years technical engineering experience OR Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 12+ years technical engineering experience OR equivalent experience.
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements.
Microsoft Cloud Background Check required upon hire or transfer and every two years thereafter.
Requires access to information controlled for export under export control regulations.
Successful candidate will be required to provide proof of country of citizenship or U.S. permanent 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

CPU security architecture or micro-architecture experience.
Graphics security architecture or micro-architecture experience.
NPU security architecture or micro-architecture experience.
Architecting confidential computing solutions for workload isolation, memory protection and encryption, trusted execution, attestation, and data-in-use protection.
Hardware security microarchitecture, including key management, cryptography, secure storage, anti-rollback, access control, and hardware trust boundaries.
End-to-end SoC security across compute, memory, I/O, chip-to-chip interfaces, firmware, and accelerators.
Verification principles.
Testbench architectures.
Scalable stimulus generation.
Threat analysis.
Security verification.
Vulnerability closure.
Silicon signoff.

Experience Level

Senior Principal

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 $165,600 - $296,400 per year (U.S. typical base pay range)
USD $220,800 - $331,200 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.