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Senior SoC Performance Verification Engineer

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Microsoft Corporation

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United States , Raleigh

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Salary:

119800.00 - 234700.00 USD / Year

Job Description:

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 Compute Silicon and Manufacturing Engineering (CSME) 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 SoC Performance Verification Engineer to join the team.

Job Responsibility:

  • Own a novel performance verification endeavor, driving methodology for the current and future Cobalt programs.
  • Work with performance, IP, and SoC architects to identify and correlate on key performance indicators.
  • Become knowledgeable on the overall SoC architecture, understanding performance-critical datapaths and configurations.
  • Develop verification strategy, test plans, requirements, environments, tools, and methodologies.
  • Create performance tests, debug correlation mismatches to root cause, and recommend fixes.
  • Engage with partners to drive continuous improvement to both the design, to verification plans/collateral, and to methodology to prevent, reduce, and/or find bugs sooner, more easily, or more reliably.
  • Mentor and coach team members
  • Apply your One Microsoft mentality to collaborate with and influence architects, logic designers, post-silicon validators, other verification engineers, and IP and tool providers.
  • Embody our culture and values.

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
  • This role will require access to information that is controlled for export under export control regulations
  • BS/MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science or related degree.
  • Performance verification experience through at least one end-to-end tapeout.
  • 6+ years of experience working on Computer Architecture and SoC design and verification principles, including using industry standard HDLs like System Verilog/UVM.
  • Experience developing tests targeting emulation platforms, including C/C++ and accelerated VIP content.
  • Proficient communication, collaboration and teamwork skills and ability to contribute to diverse and inclusive teams.
  • Demonstrated expertise in one or more of the following: CPU architecture, protocols, and related firmware
  • Coherent and non-coherent fabric IPs and protocols
  • ARM standard architectures and protocols

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
March 04, 2026

Employment Type:
Fulltime
Work Type:
Hybrid work
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