Silicon Debug Engineer

Microsoft•Redmond, WA

23h•$102,100 - $219,200

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 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 advantages 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 Manufacturing and Product Engineering (SMPE) team is instrumental in defining and elivering 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 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 Debug Engineer to join the team to support our mission as a key role with Maia & Cobalt silicon programs.

Requirements

Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 1+ year(s) technical engineering experience OR Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 2+ years technical engineering experience OR equivalent experience.

Nice To Haves

3+ years of experience in Developing Integrated Circuits (pre-silicon, first silicon bring-up, new product introduction).
3+ years of experience in product and test engineering, specialize in ATE Test or silicon debug or FA/FI
3+ years of experience building debug methodology solutions for complex state-of-the-art SoC in advance process nodes
Experience with System-level debug and correlation to ATE
Presentation and communication skills.
Probability & statistics background including DOE’s.
Knowledgeable in DFT and DFM techniques.
Understanding of bring-up/debug, characterization/manufacturing test (on ATEs).
Device physics background.

Responsibilities

Hands-on role that responsible for execution on silicon debug, FA/FI and debug tool readiness
Experience silicon debug, design collateral procurement, readiness for physical/electrical debug tools and physical FA readiness
Experience in semiconductor debug, fault isolation, failure analysis and product engineering yield debug
Developing new silicon debug methodologies for all test content types in our MFG flow
Root-cause of key product issues, circuit marginalities, special circuit failures and translate them into corrective actions in the design, our design methodologies and/or the MFG test flow
Deep understanding and experience debugging product issues on ATE and using analytical equipment to isolate failures
Deep understanding of best-in class silicon debug tools and methodologies is a must
Strong project leadership skills to manage external vendors, drive cross functional teams and drive sub-project as part of larger development programs