Senior Silicon Engineer
About The Position
Microsoft’s Silicon, Cloud Hardware, and Infrastructure Engineering team delivers infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft’s online businesses and Azure platform. The Data Processing Unit team within Azure Hardware Systems & Infrastructure is seeking a Senior Silicon Engineer to join its front-end silicon team and help deliver high-performance, low-power, scalable, programmable DPU silicon. The engineer will design DPU silicon modules to solve complex datacenter problems, collaborate with software teams on programmable silicon implementations and microarchitecture, and work with design verification and physical design teams to deliver quality modules. The role offers exposure to different engineering domains involved in developing DPU silicon.
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 assessment of eligibility 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 and/or master’s degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent.
- 8+ years of RTL design and microarchitecture experience.
- Experience designing modules for networking silicon.
- Experience developing complex modules from concept to silicon.
- Understanding of processors and peripheral interconnect bus protocols and architectures.
- Understanding of low-power microarchitecture techniques.
- Knowledge of Verilog, SystemVerilog, C++, Python, and Perl.
Responsibilities
- Design modules to solve complex datacenter problems for DPU silicon.
- Interact with the software team to co-develop programmable silicon implementations and microarchitecture.
- Work with design verification and physical design teams to deliver quality modules.
- Solve complex engineering problems using relevant experience.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
