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About the Role

The AI Silicon Engineering (AISiE) SoC Design Verification team verifies Microsoft’s latest AI accelerators. We are seeking a Senior Emulation Engineer to partner across disciplines to develop verification environments and test cases that bring these accelerators to production with high quality. As a Senior Emulation Engineer, you will develop complex, scalable verification environments optimized for emulation platforms to support functional, performance, and power verification at the SoC level. You will enable software and firmware teams to leverage emulation models for shift-left verification and improve post-silicon readiness.

Responsibilities

Build, validate, and automate emulation models with constant improvement in runtime efficiency.
Collaborate with architects and design engineers to define verification plans, including strategy, test environments, and requirements for IP/Subsystem/SoC-level verification.
Develop reusable verification components, including monitors, trackers, debug flows, assertions, and functional coverage models.
Triage and debug failures across testbenches, simulation, and emulation environments.
Develop Makefiles and automation scripts to enable scalable and efficient verification flows.
Apply Agile methodologies, including participation in code reviews, sprint planning, and continuous integration practices.
Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams across multiple sites and geographies.

Requirements

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.
Must provide proof of citizenship or U.S. permanent residency or other protected status for assessment of eligibility to access export-controlled information.
Citizenship will be verified with a valid passport.
Lawful permanent residents, refugees, and asylees may verify status using other documents, where applicable.

Skills

AI Accelerator, CPU, graphics, or NPU design verification at SoC.
Emulation platform and its associated technologies including transactors, speed adapters, virtual solutions.
Experience on IO subsystem including PCIe, Ethernet, SPI interfaces.
Full stack knowledge across Si lifecycle with collaboration across RTL, firmware, DV, platform teams.

Location

U.S.

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

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.
Doctorate in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 3+ years technical engineering experience OR Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience OR Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience OR equivalent experience.

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
Doctorate in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field
Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field
Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field

Salary/Compensations

USD $119,800 - $234,700 per year (U.S. base pay range)
USD $160,200 - $261,000 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.