Principal 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. Our focus is on smart growth, high efficiency, and delivering a trusted experience to customers and partners worldwide. We are looking for passionate engineers to help achieve that mission.

As Microsoft's 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. The AISiE team defines and delivers operational measures of success for hardware manufacturing, improving planning, quality, delivery, scale, and sustainability related to Microsoft cloud hardware.

Responsibilities

• Establish yourself as an integral member of a design verification team for the development of AI components with focus on verifying functions and features.
• Lead a pre-silicon verification team for the development of custom Intellectual Property (IP) and Subsystem (SS) components with focus on architectural and micro-architectural based functions and features.
• Collaborate with the architecture and design teams to ensure the implementation meets both architectural and micro-architectural intent.
• Write, execute, enhance, and debug constrained random stimulus, scoreboards and checkers, and assertions to verify design correctness.
• Develop Universal Verification Methodology (UVM) components to interface between test code and verification simulation environments.
• Apply Agile development methodologies including code reviews, sprint planning, and feature deployment.
• Provide technical leadership through mentorship and teamwork.
• Demonstrate Microsoft core values: Customer Focus, Adaptability, Collaboration, Growth Mindset, Drive for Results, Influence for Impact, Judgement, and Diversity & Inclusion.

Qualifications

Required 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.

Other Requirements

• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements, including:
  • 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 controlled for export under export control regulations (e.g., U.S. International Traffic in Arms Regulations, Export Administration Regulations, EU Dual Use Regulation). Proof of citizenship, U.S. residency, or other protected status is required as a condition of employment.
  • Valid passport required for citizenship verification.

Preferred Qualifications

• 10+ years of industry experience in design verification with a track record of delivering complex Central Processing Unit (CPU), Graphics Processing Unit (GPU), or System on Chip (SoC) IPs.
• 8+ years of industry experience in design verification delivering complex Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASIC) or System on Chip (SoC).
• Demonstrated experience in one or more of the following: interconnect fabrics, Network on Chip (NoCs), AXI protocol, or other complex IP/blocks or subsystems.
• Experience working on AI/Machine Learning (ML) SoCs preferred.
• In-depth knowledge of verification and debug principles, testbenches, Universal Verification Methodology (UVM), or C-based test environments.
• Working knowledge of writing assertions, coverage, and/or formal verification.
• Knowledge of industry-standard bus interfaces such as Advanced Microcontroller Bus Architecture (AMBA) Advanced eXtensible Interface (AXI) protocols.
• Background in debugging RTL (Verilog) designs as well as simulation and/or emulation environments.
• Experience with scripting languages such as Zsh, Bash, Python, or Perl.
• Proficient communication, collaboration, and teamwork skills.

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. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.

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