Senior IP 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 a Senior IP Design Verification Engineer 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 Verification & Valdiation 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 a Senior IP Design Verification Engineer 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 Senior IP Design Verification Engineer to join the team.

The candidate for this position will be expected and able to complete the following responsibilities:

• Own or lead verification of complex flows at subsystem IP or block level.
• Learn about the design and interact with partner teams to define verification strategies and test plans.
• Develop UVM-based verification environments and run and debug simulations to drive quality.
• Apply random-stimulus and coverage-based techniques to find bugs and meet test plan goals.
• Innovate to improve verification efficiency through methodologies or tools.
• Apply industry leading generative AI solutions to verification work.
• Coach and mentor others through knowledge sharing.
• Demonstrate Microsoft core values: Customer Focus Adaptability Collaboration Growth Mindset Drive for Results Influence for Impact Judgement and Diversity & Inclusion

Required Qualifications:

• Doctorate in Electrical Engineering Computer Engineering Computer Science or related field AND 1 year(s) technical engineering experience OR Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering Computer Engineering Computer Science or related field AND 4 years technical engineering experience OR Bachelors Degree in Electrical Engineering Computer Engineering Computer Science or related field AND 5 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:

• 7 years of related technical engineering experience
  • OR Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering Computer Engineering Computer Science or related field AND 5 years technical engineering experience or internship experience
  • OR Masters degree in Electrical Engineering Computer Engineering Computer Science or related field AND 3 year(s) technical engineering experience or internship experience.
  • OR Doctorate degree in Electrical Engineering Computer Science Computer Engineering or related field.
• 5 years of pre-silicon subsystem or IP verification experience.
• Demonstrated experience in one or more of the following: fabric interconnects coherency virtualization security interrupts PCIe CXL power management and/or protocol bridges.
• Demonstrated experience in verifying designs that utilize Coherent Hub Interface (CHI) Advanced Microcontroller Bus Architecture (AMBA) and Advanced extensible Interface (AXI) protocols.
• Experience driving IP verification for a full product cycles from definition to silicon including writing IP/block or subsystem level test plans developing tests debugging failures and coverage signoff.
• Demonstrated hands-on technical leadership such as creating bottoms up schedules coordinating work across a team driving verification closure or solving cross-team technical problems.
• Experience creating maintaining or integrating test benches checkers and stimulus using Universal Verification Methodology (UVM) System Verilog Test Bench (SVTB) and optionally Python based post-processing checking.
• Aptitude for writing scripts/software with industry standard languages like Python.
• Experience applying generative AI to day-to-day tasks.

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Silicon Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119800 - $234700 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 $160200 - $261000 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.

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.

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