Principal SOC and IP Verification Engineer

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 Cloud Compute Development Organization (CCDO) team is instrumental in defining and delivering silicon solutions for the Cobalt program through hardware manufacturing, improving the planning process, quality, delivery, scale and sustainability related to Microsoft cloud hardware. CCDO is at the forefront of innovation and application of AI to silicon development workflows. 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 an Individual contributor or Technical Manager to join the team. 

Required Qualification 

• 12+ years of pre-silicon SOC, chip level, subsystem or IP verification experience  

• Candidate must have at least a bachelor’s or master’s degree in electrical, Electronics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science or a related degree  

Preferred Qualification 

• Experience in one or more of the following: coherency, caches, fabrics, reset, power management, design for debug (DFD), Double Data Rate (DDR) controllers, virtualization, interrupts, security, Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe), Compute Express Link (CXL), Universal Serial Bus (USB), low speed IOs (SPI, I3C, etc.), AXI/CHI protocol bridges or other complex IP/blocks or subsystems  

• Hands-on technical leadership experience such as creating bottom’s up schedules, coordinating work across a team, driving verification closure, or solving cross-team technical problems  

• Experience with verification for multiple product cycles from definition to silicon, including writing test plans, developing tests, debugging failures and coverage signoff  

• Experience in creating, maintaining, or integrating test benches, checkers and stimulus using System Verilog Test Bench (SVTB), Universal Verification Methodology (UVM), Formal Verification and/or C  

• Experience in automating verification processes using Python or another scripting language  

• Experience in Formal Verification is add-on. 

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

• Own, lead or manage verification of complex flows at the SOC, subsystem, or IP levels  

• Make use of and contribute to industry-leading Generative AI verification tools and flows  

• Learn about complex designs 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, coverage-based and/or formal verification techniques to find bugs and meet test plan goals   

• Innovate to improve verification efficiency through methodologies or tools  

• 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