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Senior SoC HW (Analog / Functional) Validation Engineer

Senior SoC HW (Analog / Functional) Validation Engineer

MicrosoftHillsboro, Oregon, United States
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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, high-energy engineers to help achieve that mission.

The Silicon Computing development team is currently seeking a Senior Systems on Chip Hardware (Digital, Analog or Power and Performance) Validation Engineer to join the post-silicon validation team, which encompasses functional, electrical, and power / performance aspects. This team is responsible for working on numerous projects within Microsoft, focusing on the development of custom silicon for a diverse range of systems. Their ultimate goal is to deliver cutting-edge and custom System-on-Chip designs capable of efficiently performing complex and high-performance functions.

We are looking for a Senior SoC HW (Analog / Functional) Validation Engineer to join the team.

Qualifications

Required / minimum 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.
  • 4+ years of experience in 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.
  • Additional Preferred Requirements :

    Proficient communication, collaboration, and teamwork skills, with the ability to lead, grow, and contribute to diverse and inclusive teams

    Experience in verification, logic development, analog validation, or validation tools as part of a CPU, SoC, and / or IP development team

    Leadership skills

    Demonstrated validation expertise in one or more of the following areas :

    Electrical validation : SerDes, IO, high-speed interconnects, analog circuits

    Power and performance validation

    Automation, content creation, or tools / scripts development

    Ability to develop synthetic SoC validation content for Core, Coherency, Memory, and IO, to run on both bare-metal and OS environments

    Ability to develop sophisticated tools / scripts to support SoC validation and debug activities, including :

    Maximum power analysis

    Current transient measurements

    Register dumps

    Understanding of board-level schematics

    Understanding of 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

    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.

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

    Microsoft will accept applications for the role until August 26th, 2025.

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    Responsibilities

  • Own post-silicon validation of one of the following areas :
  • IO electrical / analog

    Functional IO interfaces

    Define, guide, and contribute to the implementation of silicon debug tools and capabilities

    Become an expert in high-speed IO interfaces (e.g., PCI, CXL), including :

    Their architecture and implementation

    Interaction with other SoC components, the platform, and software

    Provide technical guidance, coaching, and mentorship to other engineers

    Develop validation strategy, requirements, environments, tools, and methodologies

    Including debug board and hardware / software requirements

    Write and implement test plans using :

    Validation principles and techniques

    Test content, scripts, tools, and collateral

    Execute test content in post-silicon environment; triage and debug failures

    Apply a growth mindset to learn and adapt in a dynamic environment

    Collaborate with partners to improve design, validation plans, and methodology

    Aim to detect bugs earlier, more reliably, and efficiently

    Embrace a One Microsoft approach by collaborating with :

    Architects, logic designers, verification engineers

    Other post-silicon validators, IP and tool providers

    Deliver high-quality results on schedule to satisfy customer expectations

    Provide technical leadership with respect and integrity

    Contribute to pre-silicon verification planning, testing, and debugging in your area

    Benefits / perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.Industry leading healthcareEducational resourcesDiscounts on products and servicesSavings and investmentsMaternity and paternity leaveGenerous time awayGiving programsOpportunities to network and connect

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