Principal SOC Verification 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 trusted experience to customers and partners worldwide and we are looking for passionate engineers to help achieve that mission.

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.

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 & Manufacturing Engineering (CSME) team is instrumental in defining and delivering silicon solutions for the Cobalt program through hardware manufacturing, improving the planning process, quality, delivery, scale and sustainability related to Microsoft cloud hardware. CSME is at the forefront of innovation and application of AI to silicon development workflows. 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 Principal SoC Verification Engineer to join the team.

Responsibilities

• Be the technical lead and own verification of Design for Debug (DFD) SoC level flows including
• Task planning and schedule estimation
• Estimating resource needs and mapping tasks to team members
• Proactively identifying and removing roadblocks
• Finding ways to make the team more efficient
• Develop verification strategy, requirements, environments, tools, and methodologies
• Become an expert on the overall debug architecture, understand customer use models, and understand interactions with other parts of the SOC, with the platform, and with software
• Apply your knowledge of verification principles and techniques and your judgement to write test plans and implement them by developing tests, test generators, test benches, checkers, coverage, and other verification collateral
• Run tests, debug failures to root cause, and recommend fixes
• Apply your growth mindset to learn and adapt in a complex and dynamic environment
• 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
• Provide technical guidance, coaching, and mentorship to other engineers in your areas of expertise
• Apply your One Microsoft mentality to collaborate with and influence architects, logic designers, post-silicon validators, other verification engineers, and IP and tool providers
• Delight your customers by providing high quality results on schedule
• Provide technical leadership with respect and integrity
• Apply your expertise to improve post-silicon validation plans, tests, and debug of your area
• Apply industry leading generative AI solutions to verification work
  
  

Qualifications

Required Qualification

• 12+ years of pre-silicon SOC or subsystem or IP verification experience.  
• Candidate must have at least a bachelor’s or master’s degree in electrical, Electronics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science or a related degree  
• 5+ years of verification experience working on CPU/SOC designs, with 3+ years of design for debug verification experience
  
  

Preferred Qualification

• Experience with SOC DFD verification for a full product cycle from definition to silicon, including writing SOC level test plans, developing tests, debugging failures and coverage signoff
• Demonstrated expertise in industry standard DFD architectural protocols such as JTAG interface, hardware triggers, breakpoints and tracing
• Experience enabling and/or utilizing debug features in post-silicon
• Proficient communication, collaboration and teamwork skills and ability to contribute to diverse and inclusive teams
• Experience planning verification tasks, estimating and assigning tasks, coordinating with customers and suppliers, and executing to the plan
• Proficient leadership skills
• Passion for improving verification efficiency
• Experience with Agile software practices
  
  

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.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.