Senior SoC HW (Security/Functional) Validation Engineer

Microsoft • Hillsboro, OR

78d • $119,800 - $234,700

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 engineers to help achieve that mission. The Compute Silicon & Manufacturing Engineering (CSME) organization within SCHIE is responsible for design, development, manufacturing and packaging of Microsoft's state-of-the-art computer chips, notably the Azure Cobalt. Our solutions provide sustainable strategic advantage to Microsoft and enable our customers to achieve more. 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 Silicon Validation 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 HW (Security/Functional) Validation Engineer to join the team.

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.
• 3+ years doing SOC security validation or testing.
• 5+ years of experience in the role that involves silicon security threat analysis, security audits, secure boot, or trusted execution.
• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements.

Nice To Haves

• Proficient communication, collaboration and teamwork skills and ability to lead, grow, and contribute to diverse and inclusive teams.
• Verification, logic development, analog validation, or validation tools experience as part of a CPU, SoC and/or IP development team.
• Leadership skills.
• Technical focused skills: threat modeling, security audits, secure boot, root of trust, or trusted execution technologies knowledge.
• Ability to develop synthetic SoC validation content for Core, Coherency, Memory, and IO to run on both bare metal and OS environments.
• Ability to develop sophisticated tools/scripts to support SoC validation debug and error handling.
• Understanding of board level schematics.
• Understanding system level software and firmware.
• Experience running silicon content on pre-silicon platforms such as emulation or FPGA.
• Demonstrated success in hardware/software debug efforts.
• Hands on expertise debugging silicon failures using on chip debug features (like trace or JTAG) as well as test equipment (like oscilloscopes, protocol analyzers, logic analyzers).

Responsibilities

• Own post-silicon validation of one of the following areas: Security and cross SoC functional interfaces.
• Define, guide, and contribute to the implementation of silicon debug tools and capabilities.
• Become an expert on the overall architecture, implementation of SoC security requirements and their interactions with other parts of the SoC, with the platform, and with software.
• Provide technical guidance, coaching, and mentorship to other engineers in your areas of expertise.
• Develop validation strategy, requirements, environments, tools, and methodologies including debug board and hardware/software requirements.
• Apply your knowledge of validation and security principles and techniques and your judgement to write test plans and implement them by developing test content, scripts, tools and other validation collateral.
• Execute content in post-silicon, triage, debug and assess security impact of failures.
• Engage with partners to drive continuous improvement to the design, to security, to validation plans/collateral, and methodology to prevent, reduce, and/or find bugs sooner, more easily, or more reliably.
• Delight your customers by providing high quality results on schedule.
• Provide technical leadership with respect and integrity.

Benefits

• Industry leading healthcare
• Educational resources
• Discounts on products and services
• Savings and investments
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Generous time away
• Giving programs
• Opportunities to network and connect

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
• Education Level: Master's degree