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Principal Design Verification Engineer

United States, Mountain View 139900.00 - 274800.00 USD / Year · Job Posted January 29, 2026
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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 engineers to help achieve that mission. Microsoft is a highly innovative company that collaborates across disciplines to produce cutting edge technology that changes our world. The AI Silicon Engineering (AISiE) SoC Design Verification team is seeking passionate, driven, and intellectually curious silicon verification engineers who can work with cross-discipline teams (including systems, firmware, architecture, design, validation, and product engineering) to develop environment and test cases to verify Microsoft’s latest AI accelerators.

Job Responsibility

  • Creation of complex verification environments and tests, pre-silicon functional verification at the block, chip and system level, reference modeling and post-silicon validation
  • Interact with architects and design engineers to create verification plans covering strategy, test environments & tests, and verification requirements for IP/SS/SOC level verification
  • Create and drive test-plans and test development to provide complete features coverage
  • Develop and implement technical solutions to complex quality and design challenges
  • Develop verification components like scoreboards, sequences, constraints, assertions and functional coverage
  • Triage and debug testbench, simulation, and emulation fails
  • Develop Makefiles and scripts for scalable and efficient verification
  • Apply Agile development methodologies including code reviews, sprint planning, and frequent deployment
  • Collaborate with teams across sites and geographies

Requirements

  • Doctorate in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 3+ years technical engineering experience
  • Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience
  • Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience
  • equivalent experience
  • Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements
  • 9+ years of experience in creating simulation environments, developing tests, and debugging for multiple silicon IP's or systems
  • 5+ years’ industry experience of chip and/or computer architecture
  • 5+ years industry experience in Verilog or VHDL, C/C++, and scripting language such as Python, Ruby or Perl
  • CPU or Graphics core verification experience
  • In depth knowledge of verification principles, testbenches, stimulus generation, System Verilog, UVM, and coverage closure
  • Experience with hardware design for embedded systems
  • Firmware development, with secure and non-secure boot flow
  • Experience with hardware emulation or FPGAs
  • Design experience or ability to write synthesizable code
  • Software development experience
  • Excellent communication skills
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