Principal Silicon Engineer - Networking

Microsoft•Santa Clara, CA

3d•$139,900 - $304,200

About The Position

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.

Requirements

Doctorate in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 3+ years technical engineering experience OR Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience OR Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience OR equivalent experience.
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role.
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, potentially under the U.S. International Traffic in Arms Regulations or Export Administration Regulations, the EU Dual Use Regulation, and/or other 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 (e.g., under 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)) for assessment of eligibility to access the export-controlled information.
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 Haves

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.

Responsibilities

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.