Senior SoC HW (PnP/Functional) Validation Engineer

Responsibilities

• Own project post-silicon validation direction including functional, electrical, and power/performance aspects.
• Define, guide, and contribute to the planning and implementation of silicon debug tools and capabilities.
• Cook up cross-organization program deliverables, requirements, and execution.
• Provide technical guidance, coaching, and mentorship to other engineers in your areas of expertise.
• Develop validation strategy, requirements, environments, tools, and methodologies including debug board and hardware/software requirements.
• Apply your knowledge of validation principles and techniques and your judgement to deliver test plans, including test content, scripts, tools and other validation collateral.
• Execute content in post-silicon, triage and debug failures.
• Apply your growth mindset to learn and adapt in a complex and dynamic environment.
• Engage with partners to drive continuous improvement to the design, to validation plans/collateral, and methodology to prevent, reduce, and/or find bugs sooner, more easily, or more reliably.
• Apply your One Microsoft mentality to collaborate with and influence architects, logic designers, verification engineers, other post-silicon validators, and IP and tool providers.
• Delight your customers by providing high quality results on schedule.
• Provide technical leadership with respect and integrity.
• Apply your experience towards pre-silicon verification plans, tests, and debug of your area.

Qualifications

• Doctorate in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 1+ year(s) technical engineering experience OR Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience OR Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 5+ years technical engineering experience OR equivalent experience.
• Understanding of SoC system level and platform level functionality, defining silicon validation requirements, writing scripts/software with industry standard languages like Python or C/C++.
• Effective communication, collaboration and teamwork skills and ability to lead, grow, and contribute to diverse and inclusive teams.
• Verification, logic development, analog validation, or validation tools experience as part of a CPU, SoC and/or IP development team.
• Leadership skills.
• Demonstrated validation experience in one or more of the following: Power validation and Performance testing plus tuning, Automation, Content Creation, or Tools/Scripts Development, Developing synthetic SoC validation Core, Coherency, Memory, and IO content to run on both bare metal and OS environments, Developing sophisticated tools/scripts to support SoC validation debug activities such as maximum power, current transients, and register dumps, Understanding of board level schematics, Understanding system level software and firmware, Experience running silicon content on pre-silicon platforms such as emulation or FPGA, Demonstrated success in hardware/software debug efforts.