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 and we are looking for a Senior Design Verification Engineer to help achieve that mission.The silicon computing development team in Raleigh is seeking a Senior Design Verification Engineer to deliver premium-quality designs once considered impossible. Our team is involved in numerous projects within Microsoft developing custom silicon for a diverse set of systems ranging from traditional computing solutions to artificial intelligence and augmented reality. We are responsible for delivering cutting-edge, custom Central Processing Unit(CPU) and System on Chip(SoC) designs that can perform complex and high-performance functions in an extremely efficient manner.Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.Responsibilities
Establish yourself as an integral member of a pre-silicon verification team owning verification of SoC and integration of components and/or SoC level flows.
Become proficient on the SoC coherent fabric and its interaction with other Internet Protocol(IPs).
Develop verification strategy, testplans, requirements, environments, tools, and methodologies.
Define, document, and implement a from-scratch Universal Verification Methodology(UVM) verification environment including agents and scoreboards for a design.
Apply your knowledge of verification principles and techniques and your judgement to write test plans and implement them by developing tests, test generators, test benches, checkers, coverage, and other verification collateral.
Run tests, debug failures to root cause, and recommend fixes.
Apply your growth mindset to learn and adapt in a complex and dynamic environment.
Engage with partners to drive continuous improvement to both the design, to verification plans/collateral, and to methodology to prevent, reduce, and/or find bugs sooner, more easily, or more reliably.
Mentor and coach team members
Apply your One Microsoft mentality to collaborate with and influence architects, logic designers, post-silicon validators, other verification engineers, and IP and tool providers.
Other
Embody our Culture (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/about/corporate-values) and Values (https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/culture)
QualificationsRequired qualifications:
7+ years of related technical engineering experience
OR Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience or internship experience
OR Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 3+ years technical engineering experience or internship experience
OR Doctorate degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
5+ years of experience working on Computer Architecture and SoC design and verification principles, including:
Using industry standard Hardware Description Languages(HDLs) like SystemVerilog
Developing and using UVM verification environments
Writing scripts/software with industry standard languages such as Python or C+ 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.Preferred qualifications:
Verification, logic development, or validation experience as part of a CPU, SoC and/or IP development team.
Demonstrated experience in one or more of the following:
Coherent fabric interconnect, protocols, and IPs
CPU and system level caches
Peripheral Component Interconnect express(PCIe) Controller and protocols
Memory Controller and Double Data Rate(DDR) protocols
Knowledge of full chip and system level flows and protocols.
Effective communication, collaboration and teamwork skills and ability to contribute to diverse and inclusive teams.
Silicon Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $117,200 - $229,200 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 $153,600 - $250,200 per year.Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-payMicrosoft will accept applications for the role until July 30, 2024.#azurehwjobs #CCDOMicrosoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, 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 and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html) .