Job Description

Microsoft Azure is building the fastest network in public cloud. We are seeking candidates who live and breathe kernels and network acceleration, love to code, and who build network systems and services, taking things from idea to production. Join us as a Principal Software Engineer to build the world's fastest public cloud and make a difference to millions of people across the planet. As a developer in the network data-path team, you would be responsible for building, testing and deploying networking acceleration on Azure including RDMA, SRIOV, DPDK for network appliances, Linux network acceleration, containers, etc. You should be able to drive projects with other teams in Microsoft, our hardware partners and various Linux distros.

Responsibilities

Microsoft Israel is seeking a highly motivated, independent hardware design engineer to build innovative FPGA-based networking systems within a large design team.u202F

By leveraging the huge amounts of fine-grained parallelism delivered by current and future FPGAs, reconfigurable computing can radically accelerate many types of computations over our network.u202F

The ideal candidate will develop and deploy large-scale FPGA-based computations in the Cloud for challenging applications important to Microsoft and our customers, and provide a platform for ongoing innovation.

This includes FPGA applications, support systems, drivers, and interaction with a large software design team on important customer-facing applications.

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Come join us and be challenged daily as you build acceleration for some of the world's largest datacenter networks. This is a great opportunity to learn from and join a team that has built some of the largest scale cloud systems ever deployed.u202F

Keyu202FQualifications:

* At least 5+ years, Proven track record of RTL large, complex designs
* Experienced with large FPGA development on Altera/Intelu202For Xilinx devices
* Very familiar with FPGA CAD tools development flows including design entry in Verilog, synthesis, place and route, timing constraints and timing closure
* Hands on with lab FPGA debug methodologies
* Experience with verification methodologies, RTL and gate level simulations and debug
* Excellent communication skills and demonstrate the desire to take on diverse challenge
* Experience working in a team environment
* BSc/ MSc/PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience

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Preferred Qualifications:

* Experience with designing and implementing networked systems such as switches, NPUs, or routers a plus.
* Experience with kernel and driver development - windows experience and network stack experience preferred.
* Experience with networking, industrial standard protocols ( Ethernet, PCIe, RDMA etc.)u202F
* Experience in distributed and fault-tolerant systems
* Experience debugging silicon, PCB issues, Hands on experience with lab debug
* Experience collaborating with hardware engineers, software programmers and device driver developers.
* Experience in C/C++, API and platform-level design
* Ability of writing scripts using Python/Perl

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

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