Senior Design Verification Engineer

Microsoft • Redmond, WA

5h • $119,800 - $261,000

About The Position

Microsoft Silicon, Cloud Hardware, and Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE) powers Microsoft's cloud infrastructure and supports the company's online businesses and Azure platform. Within SCHIE, the Compute Silicon & Manufacturing Engineering (CSME) organization designs, develops, manufactures, and packages computer chips, including Azure Cobalt, and works to improve the quality, delivery, scale, cost, and sustainability of cloud hardware.

The Senior Design Verification Engineer will join a pre-silicon verification team and develop critical verification IP used across IP, subsystem, and SoC environments. The role includes developing verification strategy and infrastructure, implementing UVM environments, creating and running tests, debugging failures, and collaborating with engineering partners to improve design and verification practices. The position requires meeting Microsoft Cloud Background Check requirements and eligibility requirements for access to export-controlled information.

Requirements

• Doctorate in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field and at least 1 year of technical engineering experience; or a master's degree in one of these fields and at least 4 years of technical engineering experience; or a bachelor's degree in one of these fields and at least 5 years of technical engineering experience; or equivalent experience.
• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including passing the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire or transfer and every two years thereafter.
• Must provide proof of citizenship, U.S. residency, or other protected status for eligibility assessment to access export-controlled information; citizenship will be verified with a valid passport, with other applicable documents accepted for lawful permanent residents, refugees, and asylees.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor's or master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
• At least 3 years of experience working on computer architecture and SoC design and verification principles, including industry-standard HDLs such as SystemVerilog.
• At least 3 years of experience developing and using verification environments with industry-standard languages and methods such as SVTB UVM or formal verification.
• At least 3 years of experience as part of a CPU, SoC, and/or IP development team.
• Demonstrated expertise in coherent and non-coherent fabric IPs and protocols, CPU and system-level caches, PCIe controllers and protocols, memory controllers and DDR protocols, or ARM architecture.
• Knowledge of full-chip and system-level flows and protocols.
• Strong communication, collaboration, and teamwork skills, with the ability to contribute to diverse and inclusive teams.

Responsibilities

• Serve as an integral member of a pre-silicon verification team, owning verification IP used across IP, subsystem, and SoC environments.
• Develop knowledge of the SoC coherent fabric and its interactions with other IPs.
• Develop verification strategies, test plans, requirements, environments, tools, and methodologies.
• Define, document, and implement a from-scratch UVM verification environment, including agents and scoreboards.
• Develop test plans and implement them through tests, test generators, test benches, checkers, coverage, and other verification collateral.
• Run tests, debug failures to root cause, and recommend fixes.
• Learn and adapt in a complex and dynamic environment.
• Work with partners to improve architecture, design, verification plans and collateral, and methodology to prevent, reduce, or find bugs sooner and more reliably.
• Share knowledge and provide guidance to team members.
• Collaborate with and influence architects, logic designers, post-silicon validators, verification engineers, and IP and tool providers.
• Embody Microsoft's culture and values.

Benefits

• Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation; additional benefits and pay information is available through the linked Microsoft careers page.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior