Senior Silicon Engineer Front End CAD
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Job Summary
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 engineers to help achieve that mission.
As Microsofts cloud business continues to accelerate the ability to deliver new silicon innovations and infrastructure at scale with quality speed and cost efficiency has never been more critical. Within SCHIE the Methodology Infrastructure & Labs Engineering (MILE) organization plays a pivotal role in enabling Microsofts silicon strategy. MILE is responsible for end-to-end silicon design methodologies EDA/CAD ecosystems and the underlying compute infrastructure that powers the development of Microsofts custom silicon portfolio - the Azure Cobalt and Azure Maia processors.
We are seeking a Silicon Front-End (FE) CAD Software Engineer to develop maintain and support CAD flows and methodologies as well as dashboards CAD indicators and automation used across Microsofts front-end silicon design ecosystem. The role requires Python software-development skills hands-on experience building and testing end-to-end system-level software and a solid understanding of front-end CAD flows and methodologies.
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Responsibilities
Develop maintain and support Frontend CAD flows and methodologies.
Design develop and maintain CAD software utilities and automation for FE flows using Python following disciplined software-engineering practices.
Build and maintain dashboards and CAD indicators/metrics that provide visibility into flow health quality runtime and design productivity.
Develop and maintain regression and continuous-integration frameworks to evaluate flow stability functionality runtime and quality of results.
Analyse results and identify functional runtime resource or quality regressions across tool and flow releases.
Debug complex issues across CAD software flows scripts and compute/cloud environments.
Automate repetitive CAD activities and develop scalable system-level utilities and applications primarily in Python.
Use Git-based version control and code-review practices to manage CAD flow development and releases.
Collaborate with design verification methodology and CAD engineers and EDA vendors to collect requirements and improve design productivity.
Maintain high-quality documentation for software and flow releases regression results known issues and methodology changes.
Continuously improve flow reliability scalability automation and turnaround time.
Using AI to automate daily tasks and implementing AI based workflows
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
BS in Electrical Engineering Computer Engineering Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
At least 6 years of hands-on experience developing and supporting software automation or CAD flows and methodologies with proficiency in Python.
Hands-on experience with end-to-end Python-based system-level development projects including testing of complex systems.
Preferred Qualifications:
MS in Electrical Engineering Computer Engineering Computer Science or equivalent work experience.
4 years of relevant experience developing and maintaining FE CAD flows methodologies automation or infrastructure software.
Experience building dashboards CAD indicators/metrics and reporting or analytics solutions.
Familiarity with front-end design and verification flows and methodologies (RTL DV DFT lint CDC/RDC IP integration design handoff/release).
Experience with FE CAD infrastructure - build/run/release flows continuous integration (CI/CD) flow orchestration design data management and version control; object-oriented programming and software-development practices; exposure to Azure cloud infrastructure and DevOps.
Hands-on experience developing AI-based workflows and automation.
Self-motivation Growth mindset Ownership mindset attention to detail and good written verbal and presentation skills are critical to success in this role
Other Requirements:
Ability to meet Microsoft customer and/or government security screening requirements is required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screening:
Microsoft Cloud Background Check. This position is required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire or 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 U.S. permanent 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.
This 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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