SoC Performance Verification Engineer - Senior

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.

The Compute 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 passion for customer-focused solutions to envision and implement future technical solutions that will manage and optimize the Cloud infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• 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 the design, verification plans/collateral, and 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 our culture and values.

Requirements

Minimum Qualifications:

• Doctorate in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 1+ year(s) technical engineering experience
• Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience
• Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 5+ years technical engineering experience
• Equivalent experience.

Other Requirements:

• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements, including:
  • Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
  • Access to export-controlled information, requiring proof of citizenship, U.S. residency, or other protected status (e.g., under 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)).
  • Verification of citizenship with a valid passport or other applicable documents for lawful permanent residents, refugees, and asylees.

Preferred Qualifications

• BS/MS in Electrical Engineering, 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

Pay

The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 per year. For specific work locations within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, the base pay range is USD $160,200 - $261,000 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Additional pay and benefits information can be found at Microsoft Careers - Pay and Benefits.