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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 (PnP/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 post silicon 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 (PnP/Functional) Validation Engineer 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 SoC HW (PnP/Functional) Validation Engineer to join the team.
Job Responsibility
Own project post-silicon validation direction including functional, electrical/analog and power & performance.
Define, guide, and contribute to the planning and implementation of silicon debug tools and capabilities.
Coordinate across multiple organization on program deliverables, requirements, and execution.
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 deliver test plans, including 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 experience 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.
Nice to have
Understanding of SoC system level and platform level functionality, defining silicon validation requirements, writing scripts/software with industry standard languages like Python or C/C++.
Effective 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 experience in one or more of the following: Validation of: Power validation and Performance testing plus tuning.
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.