Senior Silicon 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, high-energy engineers to help achieve that mission. 

Are you seeking an opportunity to work on delivering silicon solutions that have a planet-scale impact? The Data Processing Unit (DPU) team within the Azure Hardware Systems & Infrastructure group is seeking a Senior Silicon Engineer. You will join our front-end silicon team and be responsible for delivering cutting-edge, high performance, low power, scalable and programmable DPU silicon. 

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• 7+ years of related technical engineering experience
  • OR Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience or internship experience
  • OR Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 3+ years technical engineering experience or internship experience
  • OR Doctorate degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
  • 5+ years of experience in RTL Verification using UVM/C verification methodology
• Any  experience in Ethernet, RDMA, MAC/PCS, Networking blocks is a plus.
• 7+ years of experience in verification and development of complex System on Chips
• Other Qualifications
• 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.

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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.

• Validating silicon to solve complex problems in a datacenter.
• Lead key components of functional validation of complex Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) System on Chip (SOC) using Universal Verification Methodology (UVM)/C test bench
• Perform Pre-Silicon SoC verification, Post-Silicon/ Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) validation by defining testing strategies
• Work with Cross-functional teams, Architecture, Design, Verification, Partner teams for project execution and also influence next generation designs
• Develop Test plan, C Model and infrastructure to complete functional validation of complex design and report bug/issues
• Running tests, debugging failures, creating stress and performance scenarios to meet test plan goals
• Actively participate in chip bring up and write test firmware to support various teams
• Innovate to improve validation efficiency through methodologies and tools
• Demonstrate Microsoft core values: Customer Focus, Adaptability, Collaboration, Growth Mindset, Drive for Results, Influence for Impact, Judgement, and Diversity & Inclusion
• Embody our Culture & Values