Silicon Front End CAD Engineer

The Microsoft Silicon Engineering and Solutions Team is seeking passionate, driven and intellectually curious engineers to join our Central Front-End Tools, Flows and Methodology (TFM) group. This team drives state-of-the-art converged solutions, automation, and quality assurance checks across front-end areas like RTL & VIP Design, Design Verification, Validation, DFT, Emulation and IP integration. This team supports numerous simultaneous projects within Microsoft by developing workflows and software for our design engineers so that they can deliver cutting-edge silicon solutions for Microsoft.   

Qualifications   

Required:    

• BS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent work experience.   
• 7+ years of experience in Software Development and Cloud DevOps Infrastructure.   
• Well-rounded and familiar with most Front-End Tools, Flows and Methodologies.   
• Experienced writing scripts/software with industry standard languages like Python, TCL, Perl, C/C++ or SystemC (Python & SystemC preferred)  
• Strong knowledge of security best practices in software and security bug reporting. 
• Experience in cloud environments such as Azure/AWS/GCP 
• Strong Object-Oriented Programming expertise.  
• Experience with continuous integration systems.  
• Experience in workflow/code management tools such as Azure Devops, Github Enterprise, GitLab, Jira 
• Experience in cloud database solutions such as Cosmos DB/Kusto DB 

Additional Preferred:   

• MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent work experience.  
• 10+ years of relevant experience.  
• Expertise in Computer Architecture, as well as CPU/SoC design principles.   
• For Logic Design CAD Automation Roles:  
• In-depth knowledge of Front-End workflows, methodologies, and best practices.   
• Ability to design and verify reusable design components.  

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. 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.

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.

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

For all CAD roles, you will:    

• Be part of a central FE CAD team that drives common FE methodologies for SoC and IP design.  
• Be the expert in your domain and act in partnership with the execution team.  
• Provide leadership to the design community for the CAD domain for which you are responsible.  
• Work with stakeholders across the Microsoft Silicon group to collect TFM requirements.  
• Develop, enhance, and integrate common design and verification IP for organization-wide use.   
• Work with EDA vendors to adopt the most optimal solutions for silicon verification and design.  
• Mentor junior team members and summer interns.