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!

We are seeking a motivated FPGA/ASIC Design Verification Engineer who is passionate about cutting edge hardware acceleration and would like to translate this passion into a commercial reality through a cloud service in Azure reaching thousands of customers and being implemented through millions of servers.

Candidates should have FPGA and/or ASIC verification expertise to verify IP for Microsoft's next generation of cloud servers and applications. The candidate will contribute to a team developing IP for both FPGAs and ASICs. The successful candidate will also be a strong communicator, creative, a critical thinker, and able to analyze and resolve complex issues.

Own verification of complex IP. Develop UVM testbenches for block level through full system.

Run tests, debug failures to root cause, and recommend fixes.

Develop verification strategy, requirements, environments, tools, and methodologies.

Maintain regression to close coverage metrics to support FPGA design iterations.

Interact with multiple software teams inside Microsoft.

Basic Qualifications

BS/MS in Electrical or Computer Engineering.

8+ years of experience in ASIC or FPGA Development.

8+ years' experience defining, developing, and using verification environments in industry standard languages like SVTB UVM or formal verification.

Preferred Qualifications

Expertise in digital design including specification development, RTL design, synthesis, and static timing signoff.

Ability to write scripts using Perl, Tcl, Python, etc.

Proven experience of successful SoC or IP designs for ASICs in leading-edge technology.

Knowledgeable in one or more industry standard interfaces such as AMBA AXI, PCIe, USB, and DDR/LPDDR.

Experience in FPGA design is desirable including an understanding the tradeoffs for mapping ASIC to FPGA or vice versa.

FPGA development environment tools expertise, including design, implementation, and debug.

FPGA high-level synthesis design and compilation using HLS tools with C, C++, and OpenCL.

Good communication skills, self-starter, and ability to facilitate cross group collaboration across Microsoft internal groups and external vendors.

The salary for this role in the state of Colorado is between $124,000 and $186,000.

At Microsoft, certain roles are eligible for additional rewards, including annual bonus and stock. These awards are allocated based on individual performance.

In addition, certain roles also have the opportunity to earn sales incentives based on revenue or utilization, depending on the terms of the plan and the employee's role.

Benefits/perks listed here may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.US-based employees gain access to healthcare benefits, a 401(k) plan and company match, short-term and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance, and fitness benefits, among others.

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.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.