Senior SoC Hardware Validation Engineer

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 a Senior SoC Hardware Validation Engineer 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 Hardware, Infrastructure Management, and Fundamentals Engineering (HIFE) 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 a Senior SoC Hardware Validation Engineer with customer focused solutions, insight and industry knowledge to envision and implement future technical solutions that will manage and optimize the Cloud infrastructure.

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.

In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.

Required Qualifications:

• 7+ years of related technical engineering experience
  • OR Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience or internship experience
  • OR Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 3+ years technical engineering experience or internship experience
  • OR Doctorate degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
• Experience in Applied understanding of Computer Architecture and CPU/SoC validation principles, including: Understanding of SoC subsystem, SoC system level, and platform level functionality and writing scripts/software with industry standard languages like Python or C/C++.

Other Requirements:

• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Proficient communication, collaboration and teamwork skills and ability to lead, grow, and contribute to diverse and inclusive teams.
• Verification, logic development, validation, or validation tools experience as part of a Central Processing Unit(CPU), System on Chip(SoC) and/or Intellectual Property(IP) development team.
• Leadership skills.
• Demonstrated validation experience in one or more of the following:
• Validation of:
  • Functional: Core, Peripheral Component Interconnect Express(PCIe), Memory Controller, Input Output(IO), Power Management, Coherency, Manageability, Basic Input Output System(BIOS)/Microcode development and debug, or Fuses.
  • Electrical: Serdes, IO.
  • Power and Performance.
  • Automation, Content Creation, or Tools/Scripts Development
• Ability to develop and build kernels and modify existing commercial OS images adding SoC validation debug hooks, drivers, and various capabilities into them.
• Ability to develop synthetic SoC validation Core, Coherency, Memory, and IO content to run on both bare metal and OS environments.
• Ability to develop sophisticated tools/scripts to support SoC validation debug activities such as crash dumps 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 Field Programmable Gate Array(FPGA).
• Demonstrated success in hardware/software debug efforts.
• Hands on experience in debugging silicon failures using on chip debug features (like trace or Joint Test Action Group(JTAG)) as well as test equipment (like protocol analyzers, bit error rate testers, logic analyzers, oscilloscopes).

Silicon Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $117,200 - $229,200 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 $153,600 - $250,200 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:    

Microsoft will accept applications and processes offers for these roles on an ongoing basis.

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The Silicon computing development team is seeking a Senior SoC Hardware Validation Engineer to join the post-silicon validation (including functional, electrical, and power/performance aspects) team for our projects. This new team will be involved in numerous projects within Microsoft developing custom silicon for a diverse set of systems. We are responsible for delivering cutting-edge, custom SoC designs that can perform complex and high-performance functions in the most efficient manner. As a Senior SoC Hardware Validation Engineer, you will:

• Own post-silicon validation of one of the following areas - functional, electrical, or power/performance.
• Define, guide, and contribute to the implementation of silicon debug tools and capabilities.
• Become efficient on the overall architecture, implementation of complex features/flows/protocols, and their interactions with other parts of the SoC, with the platform, and with software.
• Provide technical guidance, coaching, and mentorship to other engineers in your areas of experience.
• 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 write test plans and implement them by developing 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.
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