Silicon 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.

The Compute Silicon & Manufacturing Engineering (CSME) organization within SCHIE is responsible for design, development, manufacturing and packaging of Microsoft's state-of-the-art computer chips, notably the Azure Cobalt. Our solutions provide sustainable strategic advantage to Microsoft and enable our customers to achieve more. The Verification & Validation 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.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees, we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Responsibilities

• Contributes to the verification of components used in Fabric Interconnect.
• Learns about the design and interacts with partner teams to define verification strategies and test plans.
• Develops UVM-based or Formal verification environments and run and debug simulations to drive quality.
• Applies random-stimulus and coverage-based techniques to find bugs and meet test plan goals.
• Innovates to improve verification efficiency through methodologies or tools.
• Applies industry leading generative AI solutions to verification work.
• Coaches and mentors others in your areas of expertise.
• Demonstrates Microsoft core values: Customer Focus, Adaptability, Collaboration, Growth Mindset, Drive for Results, Influence for Impact, Judgement, and Diversity & Inclusion.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field OR equivalent experience.
• 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.
  • Citizenship & Citizenship Verification: This role will require access to information controlled for export under regulations such as U.S. ITAR, EAR, EU Dual Use Regulation, or other export control regulations. Proof of citizenship, U.S. permanent residency, or other protected status is required.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field OR Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 1+ years technical engineering experience OR equivalent experience.
• Exposure to Coherent Hub Interface (CHI) and Advanced Microcontroller Bus Architecture (AMBA) protocols.
• Exposure to one or more of the following: fabric interconnects, coherency, virtualization, security, interrupts, PCIe, CXL, and/or protocol bridges.
• Understanding of IP verification from definition to silicon, including writing IP/block or subsystem level test plans, developing tests, debugging failures and coverage signoff.
• Experience creating, maintaining, or integrating test benches, checkers and stimulus using Universal Verification Methodology (UVM), System Verilog Test Bench (SVTB), and optionally Python based post-processing checking.
• Aptitude for writing scripts/software with industry standard languages like Python.
• Experience applying generative AI to day-to-day tasks.

Pay

The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $85,400 - $168,100 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 $111,100 - $183,700 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.