Principal Silicon Design Verification Engineer

About the role

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.

Responsibilities

• Validate silicon to solve complex problems in a datacenter.
• Lead key components of functional validation of complex ASIC SOC using UVM/C test bench.
• Perform pre-silicon SoC verification, post-silicon validation by defining testing strategies.
• Work with cross functional teams, architecture, design, verification, partner teams for project execution and influence next generation designs.
• Develop test plan, C tests and infrastructure to complete functional validation of complex design and report bug/issues.
• Run tests, debug failures, create stress and performance scenarios to meet test plan goals.
• Actively participate in chip bring up and write test firmware to support various teams.
• Innovate to improve validation efficiency through methodologies and tools.
• Coach and mentor others in your areas of expertise.
• Demonstrate Microsoft core values: Customer Focus, Adaptability, Collaboration, Growth Mindset, Drive for Results, Influence for Impact, Judgement, and Diversity & Inclusion.

Qualifications

• Doctorate in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 3+ years technical engineering experience OR Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience OR Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience OR equivalent experience.
• 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 Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Skills

• 10+ years of experience in pre-silicon validation with a proven track record of delivering high performance Network switches/accelerators, Central Processing Unit (CPU), Vector processors and Graphics Processing Unit (GPU’s) or relevant experience.
• Experience in UVM/C verification methodology.
• Knowledge of Ethernet, TCP/IP, ROCEv2, MAC/PCS, Networking NIC/Switches.
• Proven track record with the definition and development of complex SoCs.
• In depth understanding of processors and peripheral interconnect bus protocols and architectures.
• Proficiency in Verilog, System Verilog, and UVM based testbench environment.
• Experience building UVM testbenches, managing regressions, meeting code coverage and functional coverage goals to successful tapeout.

Pay

The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $142,800 - $274,800 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 $188,000 - $304,200 per year.

Benefits

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-pay