Senior Design Verification Engineer
Microsoft · Posted Oct 5
Software, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and hardware services
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About the role
Microsoft Silicon, Cloud Hardware, and Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE) is the team behind Microsoft's expanding Cloud Infrastructure and delivers the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's online businesses and the Azure platform. The AISiE team defines and delivers operational measures of success for hardware manufacturing, improving planning, quality, delivery, scale and sustainability of Microsoft cloud hardware. This Senior Verification Engineer role joins a design verification team working on AI components and custom IP/Subsystem blocks, owning pre-silicon verification, UVM-based environments, and debug through to silicon.
What you will do
- Establish yourself as an integral member of a design verification team for the development of AI components with focus on verifying functions and features.
- Lead a pre-silicon verification team for the development of custom Intellectual Property (IP) and Subsystem (SS) components with focus on architectural and micro-architectural based functions and features.
- Collaborate with the architecture and design teams to ensure the implementation meets both architectural and micro-architectural intent.
- Write, execute, enhance, and debug constrained random stimulus, scoreboards and checkers, and assertions to verify design correctness.
- Develop Universal Verification Methodology (UVM) components to interface between test code and verification simulation environments.
- Apply Agile development methodologies including code reviews, sprint planning, and feature deployment.
- Provide technical leadership through mentorship and teamwork.
- Demonstrate Microsoft core values: Customer Focus, Adaptability, Collaboration, Growth Mindset, Drive for Results, Influence for Impact, Judgement, and Diversity & Inclusion
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- 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 industry experience in design verification with a delivering complex Application Specific Integrated Circuits(ASIC) or System on Chip(SOC).
Preferred qualifications
- 7+ years of industry experience in design verification with a proven track record of delivering complex Central Processing Unit(CPU), Graphics Processing Unit(GPU) or System on Chip(SoC) IPs.
- Demonstrated experience in one or more of the following: interconnect fabrics, Network on Chip(NOCs), AXI-4 protocol base other complex IP/blocks or subsystems.
- Experience with IP/SOC verification for a full product cycle from definition to silicon, including writing IP/block or subsystem level architecting DV environment, estimating efforts, test plans, developing tests, debugging failures and coverage signoff.
- Experience of working on AI/Machine Learning (ML) SoCs
- In depth knowledge of verification and debug principles, testbenches, Universal Verification Methodology (UVM) or C based test environments.
- Experience in post-silicon bring-up of complex SoCs involving complex NOC.
- Working knowledge of writing assertions, coverage and / or formal verification.
- Knowledge of industry standard bus interfaces such as Advanced Microcontroller Bus Architecture (AMBA) Advanced eXtensible Interface (AXI) protocols.
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is a multinational technology company that develops, licenses, and supports a wide range of software products, services, and hardware devices. Best known for its Windows operating systems, Microsoft 365 productivity suite, and Xbox gaming consoles, the company has expanded heavily into enterprise cloud computing via Azure and advanced artificial intelligence solutions. As one of the world's most valuable public enterprises, it empowers individuals and businesses globally through innovative digital transformation.
- Industry
- Software
- Company size
- 228,000+ employees
- Founded
- April 4, 1975
- Location
- Redmond, Washington, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Leadership
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Chief Financial Officer
Vice Chair and President
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