Senior Verification Engineer

Microsoft•Redmond, WA

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. 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 Artificial Intelligence System on Chip (AISoC) 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 Verification Engineer to join our 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.
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to, the following specialized security screenings: 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 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

In depth knowledge of verification principles, testbenches, stimulus generation.
Substantial background in creating simulation environments, developing tests or debugging designs
Solid understanding of chip and/or computer architecture
Experience writing tests in C/C++ or UVM
Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python, Ruby, or Perl
Verification with UVM based test environments
Experience in debugging Subsystems/SOCs scenarios with embedded processors
Experience with secure hardware design for embedded systems
Experience with hardware emulation or FPGAs
RTL design for FPGA or emulation experience
Experience in Assembly, start up code and linker scripts
Experience in developing makefiles for software development

Responsibilities

Perform pre-silicon verification for complex IP, including creating testplans, developing Universal Verification Methodology (UVM) components and environments from scratch, writing test cases, debugging failures to root cause issues, running and maintaining regression suites, and closing coverage.
Interact with architects and design engineers to create testplans covering verification strategy, test requirements, and test environments for IP/SS/SOC level verification.
Define verification strategy, requirements, test environments for IP/SS/SOC level verification.
Create test-plans and write tests to provide complete features coverage.
Develop and implement technical solutions to complex quality and design challenges.
Develop verification components like scoreboards, sequences, constraints, assertions and functional coverage.
Triage and debug testbench, simulation, and emulation fails.
Develop Makefiles and scripts for verification infrastructure.
Apply Agile development methodologies including code reviews, sprint planning, and frequent deployment.
Collaborate with teams across sites and geographies.