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Senior Physical Design Engineer

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Microsoft Corporation

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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. As Microsoft's cloud business continues to grow the ability to deploy new offerings and hardware infrastructure on time, in high volume with high quality and lowest cost is of paramount importance. To achieve this goal, the team is instrumental in defining and delivering operational measures of success for hardware manufacturing, improving the planning process, quality, delivery, scale and sustainability related to Microsoft cloud hardware. We are looking for seasoned engineers with a dedicated passion for customer focused solutions, insight and industry knowledge to envision and implement future technical solutions that will manage and optimize the Cloud infrastructure. We are looking for a Senior Physical Design Engineer to join the team.

Job Responsibility:

  • Physical Design tasks at block, subsystem, sub-chip, and/or full-chip level
  • Tasks will include Floorplanning, Synthesis, Placement, CTS and custom clocking, Routing, Static Timing, Physical Verification, Formal Equivalency, Power Efficiency, IR-Drop, and EM
  • May also be involved in Physical Design flow development/automation and evaluation of and recommendations for technology, IP, and vendor selection
  • Work with limited direction, have keen attention to detail, and be able to provide crisp status of progress, issues, and risks on the program to the management team

Requirements:

  • Bachelor's or master’s in electrical or computer engineering or related field with 8+ years of experience
  • Experience in physical design implementation, signoff at block / sub system / sub-chip / SoC level
  • Experience in tapeouts of complex ASICs in leading edge technology
  • 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

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Job Posted:
February 16, 2026

Employment Type:
Fulltime
Work Type:
Hybrid work
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