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Principal Silicon Engineer - Networking

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United States , Santa Clara

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139900.00 - 274800.00 USD / Year
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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, high-energy engineers to help achieve that mission. Are you seeking an opportunity to work on delivering silicon solutions that have a planet-scale impact? The Data Processing Unit (DPU) team within the Azure Hardware Systems & Infrastructure group is seeking a Principal Silicon Engineer. You will join our front-end silicon team and be responsible for delivering cutting-edge, high performance, low power, scalable and programmable DPU silicon.

Job Responsibility:

  • Responsible for front end Micro-architecture and RTL implementation of networking accelerator modules to solve complex problems in a datacenter
  • Interact with the software team to co-develop programmable design implementation, verification, and modeling strategies

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
  • This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter
  • This role will require access to information that is controlled for export under export control regulations
  • As a condition of employment, the successful candidate will be required to provide either proof of their country of citizenship or proof of their US. residency or other protected status
  • To meet this legal requirement, and as a condition of employment, the successful candidate’s citizenship will be verified with a valid passport
  • Lawful permanent residents, refugees, and asylees may verify status using other documents, where applicable

Nice to have:

  • BS and/or MS in Electrical Engineering or equivalent degree
  • 15+ years of Design verification and/or architecture experience
  • Knowledge of Ethernet, RDMA, TCP/IP, MAC/PCS, Packet forwarding, P4 pipelines and data path Networking blocks
  • Track record with the definition and development of complex SoCs
  • In depth understanding of processors and peripheral interconnect bus protocols and architectures
  • Complex subsystem verification experience that involve multiple complex design modules
  • Understanding of low power microarchitecture techniques
  • Strong knowledge of Verilog, System Verilog, UVM, C++, Python and Perl
  • Technical team management experience is plus
  • Hands on experience with VSCODE or Cursor IDEs, well versed with use of AI agents as an assist in coding and debugging

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Job Posted:
March 05, 2026

Employment Type:
Fulltime
Work Type:
Hybrid work
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