Senior CAD Software Engineer

Microsoft • Raleigh, NC

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About The Position

Microsoft Silicon Cloud Hardware 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, 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. The Microsoft Silicon Engineering and Solutions Team is seeking a Senior CAD Software Engineer to be a senior contributor for our central software team. This team drives state-of-the-art converged solutions, software tools, and automation to support silicon design areas such as RTL & VIP Design, Design Verification, Validation, DFT, Emulation, PD Handoff and IP integration.

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.
• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: 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 U.S. 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

• 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.
• 7 + years of experience in Software development.
• Expert knowledge of common programming paradigms (Object-Oriented, Functional, etc )
• Experienced writing software with industry standard languages like Python, TCL, Perl, C/C+ + (Python preferred)
• Expertise to own, maintain and drive complex Software projects independently.
• Expertise in Software Development Best practices .
• Experience owning and driving end to end software development life cycle for multiple complex software projects.
• Understanding of software design patterns.
• Well-rounded and familiar with silicon design Tools, Flows and Methodologies.
• Experience with continuous integration systems.
• Expertise in Computer Architecture, as well as CPU/SoC design principles.
• Expertise in Azure environments, Azure Security and DevOps concepts
• Exposure to Design and Verification execution and flows/infrastructure that is used

Responsibilities

• As senior engineer in a central CAD Software team that develops a common tool stack to internal SoC and IP designs.
• Work in close collaboration with the CAD Hardware and Compute infrastructure teams.
• Design software solutions and documentation that scale to a large user base.
• Be the expert in your domain and act in partnership with the execution team.
• Work with stakeholders across the Microsoft Silicon groups to collect software requirements.
• Develop, enhance, and integrate CAD Flows and automation for organization-wide use.

Benefits

• Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed