Design Engineer Jobs

About The Position

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.
• Provide proof of citizenship, U.S. permanent residency, or other eligible protected status to establish eligibility for access to export-controlled information; citizenship will be verified with a valid passport, with other documents applicable to lawful permanent residents, refugees, and asylees.

Nice To Haves

• Doctorate in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field and at least 3 years of technical engineering experience; or a master's degree in one of these fields and at least 6 years of technical engineering experience; or a bachelor's degree in one of these fields and at least 8 years of technical engineering experience; or equivalent experience.
• Experience developing C and C++ test content for subsystem and SoC verification, including bare-metal and firmware-style tests, and working knowledge of SystemVerilog testbenches.
• Experience bringing up and maintaining FPGA prototyping or emulation platforms, such as HAPS or Xilinx, including board images, platform tooling, and testbench changes for firmware and validation teams.
• Hands-on hardware debugging experience using JTAG debuggers, logic analyzers, oscilloscopes, and multimeters.
• Experience owning pre-silicon verification of IP, subsystems, or SoCs through test planning, test development, failure debug, and coverage signoff.
• Experience with post-silicon bring-up and validation, including running silicon test suites and debugging boot, platform, and connectivity issues in a lab.
• Proficiency in Python or a similar scripting language such as Perl or Ruby for test automation, build flows, and log or data parsing.
• In-depth knowledge of verification principles, testbench architecture, and stimulus generation, with experience debugging complex designs.
• Experience with low-level and embedded software, including assembly, startup code, linker scripts, and Makefile-based build flows.
• Familiarity with industry protocols such as AMBA (AXI/AHB/APB), JTAG, SPI, I2C/I3C, and USB.
• Experience collaborating across architecture, design, firmware, and validation teams, with effective communication skills.
• Good understanding of silicon and/or computer architecture.

Responsibilities

• Develop C and C++ test content, low-level drivers, and custom firmware at subsystem and SoC levels, including self-checking tests for embedded processors.
• Extend compile and build flows to support custom firmware-style tests.
• Own FPGA prototyping platforms such as HAPS or Xilinx, including creating board images and bit files, designing custom FPGA RTL for protocol interfaces and feature enablement, and releasing and maintaining stable platforms for firmware teams.
• Develop and extend Python tooling to interface with FPGA platforms.
• Debug FPGA and post-silicon issues using JTAG debuggers, logic analyzers, oscilloscopes, and multimeters.
• Drive post-silicon bring-up and lab validation by running validation suites on first silicon, meeting bring-up exit criteria on schedule, and debugging platform issues such as JTAG failures, UART connectivity, and boot failures with design, firmware, hardware, and security teams.
• Root-cause post-silicon test failures to closure, including collecting and analyzing scan dumps, coordinating cross-team debug, and delivering fixes for issues such as fatal errors, driver access violations, and register conflicts with boot firmware.