Principal Design Verification Engineer

Microsoft Silicon Cloud Hardware and Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE) is the team behind Microsofts expanding Cloud Infrastructure and responsible for powering Microsofts Intelligent Cloud mission. SCHIE delivers the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsofts 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 and we are looking for passionate engineers to help achieve that mission.

Microsoft is a highly innovative company that collaborates across disciplines to produce cutting edge technology that changes our world. The AI Silicon Engineering (AISiE) SoC Design Verification team is seeking passionate driven and intellectually curious silicon verification engineers who can work with cross-discipline teams (including systems firmware architecture design validation and product engineering) to develop environment and test cases to verify Microsofts latest AI accelerators.

In this role you will:

Creation of complex verification environments and tests 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 & tests and verification requirements for IP/SS/SOC level verification.

Create and drive test-plans and test development to provide complete features coverage.

Develop and implement technical solutions to complex quality and design challenges.

Develop verification components like scoreboards sequences constraints assertions and functional coverage.

Triage and debug testbench simulation and emulation fails.

Develop Makefiles and scripts for scalable and efficient verification

Apply Agile development methodologies including code reviews sprint planning and frequent deployment.

Collaborate with teams across sites and geographies.

Required Qualifications:

• Doctorate in Electrical Engineering Computer Engineering Computer Science or related field AND 3 years technical engineering experience
  • OR Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering Computer Engineering Computer Science or related field AND 6 years technical engineering experience
  • OR Bachelors Degree in Electrical Engineering Computer Engineering Computer Science or related field AND 8 years technical engineering experience
  • OR equivalent experience.

Other Requirements:

Ability to meet Microsoft customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

This role will require access to information that is controlled for export under export control regulations potentially under the U.S. International Traffic in Arms Regulations or Export Administration Regulations the EU Dual Use Regulation and/or other export control a condition of employment the successful candidate will be requiredto provide either proof of their country of citizenship or proof of their US. residency or other protected status(e.g. under 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)) for assessment of eligibility to access the export-controlled meet this legal requirement and as a condition of employment the successful candidates citizenship will be verified with a valid passport. Lawful permanent residents refugees and asylees may verify status using other documents where applicable.

Preferred Qualifications:

• BS/MS in Electrical Computer or Software Engineering.
• 9 years of experience in creating simulation environments developing tests and debugging for multiple silicon IPs or systems.
• 5 years industry experience of chip and/or computer architecture.
• 5 years industry experience in Verilog or VHDL C/C and scripting language such as Python Ruby or Perl.
• Experience with CPU or Graphics core verification.
• In depth knowledge of verification principles testbenches stimulus generation System Verilog UVM and coverage closure.
• Experience with hardware design for embedded systems.
• Firmware development with secure and non-secure boot flow.
• Experience with hardware emulation or FPGAs.
• Design experience or ability to write synthesizable code.
• Software development experience.

Silicon Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $142800 - $274800 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $188000 - $304200 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
position will be open for a minimum of 5 days with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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.

Required Experience:

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