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Microsoft • Redmond, Washington, United States
Salary: $119,800 - $234,700 / year
Role & seniority: Senior SoC Performance Verification Engineer, part of Microsoft SCHIE (Compute Silicon and Manufacturing Engineering); senior/principal level with mentoring responsibilities.
Stack/tools: SystemVerilog/UVM; HDLs and SoC verification methodologies; performance test development; emulation platforms; C/C++ for tests and VIP content; end-to-end tapeout experience preferred.
Own a novel performance verification program for current and future Cobalt initiatives; define strategy, plans, environments, and tooling.
Develop performance tests, debug correlations to root cause, and recommend fixes; correlate performance indicators with SoC architecture.
Collaborate across performance, IP, and design teams; mentor teammates; drive continuous improvement in verification plans, collateral, and methodology.
Advanced degree (PhD or MS) in Electrical/Computer Engineering or Computer Science with relevant industry experience.
5+ years (or equivalent) in computer architecture/SoC design and verification.
Proficiency with SystemVerilog/UVM and HDLs; experience targeting verification on end-to-end tapeouts.
Experience with emulation/integration tests using C/C++ and VIP content; understanding of performance-critical datapaths and architectures.
Strong collaboration and communication skills; ability to work with cross-functional teams.
Overview 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 and 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. To achieve this goal, 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 seasoned engineers with a dedicated passion for customer focused solutions, insight and industry knowledge to envision and implement future technical solutions that will manage and optimize the Cloud infrastructure. We are looking for a Senior SoC Performance Verification Engineer to join the team. #SCHIE
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 both the design, to verification plans/collateral, and to 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.
Qualifications
Silicon Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 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 $158,400 - $258,000 per year.
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This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
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