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Silicon Physical Design CAD Engineer

Microsoft


Job Location:

Bengaluru - India

Monthly Salary: Not provided by the employer
Posted: 17 October 2026 (7 hours ago)
Application Deadline: 14 January 2027
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Overview

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 Physical Design CAD Engineer to develop qualify automate and support production CAD flows used for Silicon physical design. The role requires a combination of physical design knowledge EDA tool expertise scripting skills and disciplined software development practices.

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Responsibilities
  • Develop maintain and support physical design CAD flows and methodologies.

  • Work with industry-standard EDA tools from Synopsys and Cadence for synthesis PNR timing implementation and related physical design activities.

  • Perform tool and flow qualification including validation of new EDA tool releases patches configurations and methodology changes before production deployment.

  • Develop and maintain regression frameworks to evaluate flow stability functionality runtime resource utilisation and Quality of Results (QoR).

  • Analyse results and identify timing power area runtime memory or other unexpected changes.

  • Debug complex issues involving EDA tools scripts physical design flows and compute environments.

  • Automate repetitive CAD activities and develop scalable utilities using Python Tcl Zsh or similar scripting languages.

  • Use Git-based version control and code-review practices to manage CAD flow development and releases.

  • Collaborate with physical design engineers methodology teams CAD engineers and EDA vendors to resolve issues and improve design productivity.

  • Maintain high-quality documentation for 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 3 years of hands-on experience in Silicon Physical Design and/or developing & support Silicon Physical Design CAD Tools Flows & Methodologies

  • Proficiency using Tcl Python and similar scripting languages

Preferred Qualifications:

  • MS in Electrical Engineering Computer Engineering Computer Science or equivalent work experience.

  • 4 years of relevant experience in Silicon Physical Design CAD Tools Flows & Methodologies

  • Hands-on experience in CAD/EDA tool qualifications & releases

  • Fundamentals in Synthesis PnR Sign-off concepts and experience working with Synopsys Cadence Siemens physical design & sign-off tool stack.

  • Relevant experience in developing & maintenance of Physical Design CAD Infrastructure software

  • Hands-on experience in developing AI based EDA work-flows

  • 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.


Required Experience:

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