SoC Performance Verification Engineer Senior

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.

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 theCompute Silicon and Manufacturing Engineering (CSME)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 Performance Verification Engineer - Senior to join the team.

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• Own a novel performance verification endeavor driving methodology for the current and future Cobalt programs.
• Work with performance IP and SoC architects to identify and correlate on key performance indicators.
• Become knowledgeable on the overall SoC architecture understanding performance-critical datapaths and configurations.
• Develop verification strategy test plans requirements environments tools and methodologies.
• Create performance tests debug correlation mismatches to root cause and recommend fixes.
• 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.
• Embody ourcultureandvalues.

Minimum 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:

• BS/MS in ElectricalEngineering Computer Engineering Computer Science or related degree.
• Performance verification experience through at least one end-to-end tapeout.
• 6 years of experience working on Computer Architecture and SoC design and verification principles including using industry standard HDLs like System Verilog/UVM.
• Experience developing tests targeting emulation platforms including C/C and accelerated VIP content.
• Proficient communication collaboration and teamwork skills and ability to contribute to diverse and inclusive teams.
• Demonstrated expertise in one or more of the following:
  • CPU architecture protocols and related firmware
  • Coherent and non-coherent fabric IPs and protocols
  • ARM standard architectures and protocols

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.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
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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