Principal Design Verification Engineer

Microsoft is a highly innovative company that collaborates across disciplines to produce cutting edge technology that changes our world.  The AI Silicon Engineering (AISiE) SoC Design Verification team is seeking a Principal Design Verification Engineer  who can work with cross-discipline teams (including systems, firmware, architecture, design, validation, and product engineering) to develop environment and test cases to verify Microsoft’s latest AI accelerators. The candidate should be passionate about developing systematic and efficient methods to detect hardware/software vulnerabilities.

The team is seeking a Principal Design Verification Engineer  to deliver premium-quality AI accelerator designs once considered impossible. We are responsible for delivering cutting-edge, custom Intellectual Property(IP) and System on Chip(SoC) designs that can perform complex and high-performance Artificial Intelligence(AI) operations in an extremely efficient manner.

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In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• 9+ years of related technical engineering experience
  • OR Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience or internship experience
  • OR Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience or internship experience
  • OR Doctorate degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 3+ years technical engineering experience.
• 9+ years of experience in creating simulation environments, developing tests, and debugging for multiple silicon IP's or systems.  
• 5+ years’ industry experience of chip and/or computer architecture. 
• 5+ years industry experience in Verilog or VHDL, C/C++, and scripting language such as Python, Ruby or Perl. 

Other Requirements:

• 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.

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Prior experience in two or more of the following will also be valuable: 
• CPU or graphics core verification. 
• In depth knowledge of verification principles, testbenches, stimulus generation, System Verilog, UVM, and coverage. 
• Experience with hardware design for embedded systems. 
• Firmware development, with secure and non-secure boot flow. 
• Experience with hardware emulation or FPGAs. 
• Design experience or ability to write synthesizable code. 
• Software development experience. 
• Excellent communication skills. 
• Energetic and self-motivated. 

Silicon Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $137,600 - $267,000 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $180,400 - $294,000 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until December 2, 2024.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.  We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

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• Own or lead verification of complex flows at the SOC, subsystem, or IP levels
• Learn about the design and interact with partner teams to define verification strategies and test plans
• Develop verification environments and run and debug simulations to drive quality
• Apply random-stimulus and coverage-based techniques to find bugs and meet test plan goals
• innovate to improve verification efficiency through methodologies or tools
• Plan the verification of complex design IP/SoC interacting with the architecture and design engineers to identify verification test scenarios.
• Coach and mentor others in your areas of expertise
• Demonstrate Microsoft core values: Customer Focus, Adaptability, Collaboration, Growth Mindset, Drive for Results, Influence for Impact, Judgement, and Diversity & Inclusion