Impress employers and recruiters.
Choose from hundreds of resume examples.

Impress employers and recruiters.
Choose from hundreds of resume examples.
Tailor your resume to this Principal Design Verification Engineer role.
Rezi rewrites your resume against Microsoft's job description. Free.

Tailor your resume to this Principal Design Verification Engineer role.
Rezi rewrites your resume against Microsoft's job description. Free.
Don't guess if your resume is good enough.
See how it scores against the Principal Design Verification Engineer posting at Microsoft — free, in seconds.

Don't guess if your resume is good enough.
See how it scores against the Principal Design Verification Engineer posting at Microsoft — free, in seconds.
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 Verification & Validation team is crucial for defining and delivering operational measures of success for hardware manufacturing, improving planning, quality, delivery, scale, and sustainability for Microsoft cloud hardware. We are seeking an experienced engineer passionate about customer-focused solutions to envision and implement future technical solutions for Cloud infrastructure management and optimization.
Responsibilities
- Own or lead functional or performance verification of Fabric Top subsystem integration, including coherency, traffic flows to and from memory and PCIe/CXL endpoints, and end-to-end interconnect functionality.
- Partner with architecture, design, and verification teams to define verification strategies, test plans, and signoff criteria.
- Develop and enhance UVM and/or Formal verification environments, performance measurement tools, automation infrastructure, and reusable collateral.
- Drive bug discovery and root-cause analysis through simulation, formal analysis, assertions, coverage, and debug.
- Improve verification productivity through automation, methodologies, and AI-driven solutions.
- Coach and mentor engineers in verification methodologies and best practices.
- Demonstrate Microsoft core values: Customer Focus, Adaptability, Collaboration, Growth Mindset, Drive for Results, Influence for Impact, Judgement, and Diversity & Inclusion.
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 residency 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.
Skills
- Fabric interconnects
- Coherency
- CHI
- AMBA
- PCIe
- CXL
- Protocol bridges
- Memory subsystems
- UVM verification environments
- Assertions
- Checkers
- Coverage models
- IP verification
- Formal Verification
- Assertion-based verification methodologies
- Python
- Scripting languages for automation and data analysis
- AI-assisted tools to engineering and verification workflows
Location
- U.S.
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Principal
- IC5
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 base pay range)
Benefits
- 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.