Job Description

Microsoft's hardware teams incubate advanced technologies and build deep partnerships with internal research, product planning, business and marketing teams. Microsoft ships tens of millions of hardware products every year, including the Xbox, Surface devices, HoloLens, accessories, and much more. Our opportunities represent a variety of disciplines including, but not limited to, design, verification, performance modeling, and DevOps supporting the development of custom silicon. Microsoft's hardware teams are also expanding into new technologies such as quantum computing! We are looking for the best and brightest to join us in designing for the future!

Responsibilities:

The Silicon Engineering and Solutions team is seeking passionate, driven and intellectually curious engineers 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 technical individual contributor in this high impact role on the team, you will:

* Own post-silicon validation of one or more areas in your domain (functional, electrical, or power/performance)
* Become an expert 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
* 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 verification collateral
* Execute content in post-silicon, triage and debug failures
* Define, guide, and contribute to the implementation of silicon debug tools and capabilities
* 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 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, 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 expertise towards pre-silicon verification plans, tests, and debug of your area

Requirements:

* Candidate must have at least a bachelor's or master's degree in Electrical, Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related degree
* 3+ years of experience working on Computer Architecture and CPU/SoC validation principles, including:
* Understanding of SoC subsystem, SoC system level, and platform level functionality
* Writing scripts/software with industry standard languages like Python or C/C++

Additional Preferred Requirements:

* Strong communication, collaboration and teamwork skills and ability to lead, grow, and contribute to diverse and inclusive teams
* Verification, logic development or validation experience as part of a CPU, SoC and/or IP development team
* Leadership skills
* Demonstrated validation expertise in one or more of the following:
* Validation of:
* Functional: Core, PCIe, Memory Controller, Security, IO, Power Management, Coherency, BIOS/Microcode development and debug, or Fuses
* Electrical: Memory, IO, Signal Integrity, or Clocking
* 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 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
* Hands on expertise debugging silicon failures using on chip debug features (like trace or JTAG) as well as test equipment (like protocol analyzers, bit error rate testers, logic analyzers, oscilloscopes)

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. 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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