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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 a Senior SoC HW (Analog/Functional) Validation Engineer to help achieve that mission. The Compute Silicon & Manufacturing Engineering (CSME) organization within SCHIE is responsible for design, development, manufacturing and packaging of Microsoft's state-of-the-art computer chips, notably the Azure Cobalt. Our solutions provide sustainable strategic advantage to Microsoft and enable our customers to achieve more. 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 Verification and Validation 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 a Senior SoC HW (Analog/Functional) Validation Engineer with a 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 SoC HW (Analog/Functional) Validation Engineer to join the team.
Job Responsibility
Own post-silicon validation of one of the following areas PLL, IO electrical/analog or functional IO interfaces
Define, guide, and contribute to the implementation of silicon debug tools and capabilities
Become an expert on the overall architecture, implementation of high speed IO interfaces (PLL, PCI, CXL, etc.) and their interactions with other parts of the SoC, with the platform, and with software
Provide technical guidance, coaching, and mentorship to other engineers in your areas of expertise
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 validation collateral
Execute content in post-silicon, triage and debug failures
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 methodology to prevent, reduce, and/or find bugs sooner, more easily, or more reliably
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
Doctorate in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 1+ year(s) technical engineering experience OR Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience OR Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 5+ years technical engineering experience OR equivalent experience
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role including Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter
Nice to have
Understanding of SoC power delivery, subsystem, SoC system level, and platform level functionality and writing scripts/software with industry standard languages like Python or C/C++
Proficient communication, collaboration and teamwork skills and ability to lead, grow, and contribute to diverse and inclusive teams
Verification, logic development, analog validation, or validation tools 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 Electrical: Serdes, IO, high speed interconnect, analog circuits, Power and Performance, Automation, Content Creation, or Tools/Scripts Development
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 maximum power, current transients, and register dumps
Understanding of board level schematics
Understanding 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 experience debugging silicon failures using on chip debug features (like trace or JTAG) as well as test equipment (like oscilloscopes, protocol analyzers, bit error rate testers, logic)