SoC HW (Digital, Analog or PnP) Validation 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.

The Compute Silicon & Manufacturing Engineering (CSME) organization within SCHIE is responsible for design development manufacturing and packaging of Microsofts state-of-the-art computer chips notably the Azure Cobalt. Our solutions provide sustainable strategic advantage to Microsoft and enable our customers to achieve more.

As Microsofts cloud business continues to grow the ability to deploy new offerings and hardware infrastructure on time in high volume with high quality and lowest cost is of paramount importance. To achieve this goal the post silicon validation team is instrumental in defining and delivering operational measures of success for hardware manufacturing improving the planning process quality delivery scale and sustainability related to Microsoft cloud hardware. We are looking for experienced engineers with a dedicated passion for customer focused solutions insight and industry knowledge to envision and implement future technical solutions that will manage and optimize the Cloud infrastructure.

We are looking for a SoC HW (Digital Analog or PnP) Validation Engineer to join the team.

The Compute Silicon & Manufacturing Engineering (CSME) Cloud Compute Development Organization (CCDO) is seeking a SoC HW (Digital Analog or PnP) Validation Engineer to join the post-silicon validation (functional and/or power/performance) team for our projects. This new team will be involved in numerous projects within Microsoft developing custom silicon for a diverse set of systems. We are responsible for delivering cutting-edge custom SoC designs that can perform complex and high-performance functions in the most efficient manner. As a technical individual contributor in this high impact role on the team you will:

• Own post-silicon validation of one of the following areas - functional electrical or power/performance.
• Define guide and contribute to the implementation of silicon debug tools and capabilities.
• Ramp up on the overall architecture implementation of complex features/flows/protocols and their interactions with other parts of the SoC with the platform and with software.
• Provide technical guidance coaching and mentorship to other engineers in your areas of expertise.
• Develop validation strategy requirements environments tools and methodologies including debug board and hardware/software requirements.
• Apply your knowledge of validation principles and techniques and your judgement to write test plans and implement them by developing test content scripts tools and other validation collateral.
• Execute content in post-silicon triage and debug failures.
• Apply your growth mindset to learn and adapt in a complex and dynamic environment.
• Engage with partners to drive continuous improvement to the design to validation plans/collateral and methodology to prevent reduce and/or find bugs sooner more easily or more reliably.
• Apply your One Microsoft mentality to collaborate with and influence architects logic designers verification engineers other post-silicon validators and IP and tool providers.
• Delight your customers by providing high-quality results on schedule.
• Provide technical leadership with respect and integrity.
• Apply your expertise towards pre-silicon verification plans tests and debug of your area.

We will only achieve our mission if we live our culture. We start with becoming learners in all thingshaving a growth mindset. Then we apply that mindset to learning about our customers being diverse and inclusive working together as one andultimatelymaking a difference in the world.

Required Qualifications:

• Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering Computer Engineering Computer Science or related field AND 1 year(s) technical engineering experience OR Bachelors Degree in Electrical Engineering Computer Engineering Computer Science or related field AND 2 years technical engineering experience OR equivalent experience.

Screening 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:

• Bachelors Degree in Electrical Engineering Computer Engineering Computer Science or related field AND 2 years technical engineering experience OR Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering Computer Engineering Computer Science or related field AND 1 years technical engineering experience OR Doctorate in Electrical Engineering Computer Engineering Computer Science or related field OR equivalent experience.
• Applied understanding of Computer Architecture and CPU/SoC validation principles including: Understanding of SoC subsystem SoC system level and platform level functionality and writing scripts/software with industry standard languages like Python or C/C.

• Proficient communication collaboration and teamwork skills and ability to lead grow and contribute to diverse and inclusive teams.
• Verification logic development validation or validation tools experience as part of a CPU SoC and/or IP development team
• Leadership skills
• Demonstrated validation expertise in one or more of the following:
  • Functional: Core cache Coherency/mesh/fabric PCIe/ IO Memory Controller Power Management
  • Power and Performance
  • Automation Content Creation or Tools/Scripts Development
• Validation of:
• Ability to develop synthetic SoC validation Core Coherency Memory and IO content to run on both bare metal and OS environments.
• Ability to develop sophisticated tools/scripts to support SoC validation debug activities such as crash dumps and register dumps.
• Understanding system level software and firmware.
• Experience running silicon content on pre-silicon platforms such as emulation or FPGA.
• Demonstrated success in hardware/software debug efforts.
• Hands on expertise debugging silicon failures using on chip debug features (like trace or JTAG) as well as test equipment (like protocol analyzers bit error rate testers logic analyzers oscilloscopes)

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Silicon Engineering IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $102100 - $202200 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 $133800 - $219200 per year.

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position will be open for a minimum of 5 days with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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