Senior Silicon Validation Engineer
Microsoft · Posted Oct 29
Software, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and hardware services
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About the role
Microsoft Silicon, Cloud Hardware, and Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE) delivers the core infrastructure and foundational technologies behind Microsoft's cloud businesses, including the Azure platform and its server and data center infrastructure. The role sits in the Post-Silicon Validation team within the Microsoft Artificial Intelligence System on Chip (AISoC) Silicon Org, which builds AI designs for complex, high-performance functions. The engineer will develop validation strategy, test plans, environments and tools, execute and debug post-silicon content, and provide technical leadership and mentorship across validation domains such as functional, electrical, high-speed interfaces, memory, power/performance and debug.
What you will do
- Develop validation strategy, requirements, environments, tools, and methodologies including debug board and hardware/software requirements
- Apply your knowledge of validation principles and techniques and your judgement to write test plans and implement them by developing test content, scripts, tools, and other verification collateral
- Execute content in post-silicon, triage, and debug failures
- Apply your growth mindset to learn and adapt in a complex and dynamic environment
- Engage with partners to drive continuous improvement to design, validation plans/collateral, and methodology to prevent, reduce, and/or find bugs sooner, more easily, or more reliably
- Provide technical guidance, coaching, and mentorship to other engineers in your areas of expertise
- Collaborate with and influence architects, logic designers, verification engineers, other post-silicon validators, and IP and tool providers
- Delight your customers by providing high quality results on schedule
- Provide technical leadership with respect and integrity
- Apply your expertise towards pre-silicon verification plans, tests, and debug of your area
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Candidate should have either a bachelor’s degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering with at least 7 years validation experience, or a master’s degree/Ph.D in Electrical or Computer Engineering with at least 5 years validation experience
- Applied understanding of Computer Architecture and SoC validation principles, including:
- Broad understanding of SoC subsystem, SoC system level, and platform level functionality
- Writing scripts/software with industry standard languages such as Python or C/C++.
- Leadership experience driving Post-Silicon validation and characterization and successful execution
Preferred qualifications
- Demonstrated success in running cross-disciplinary taskforces
- Verification, logic design or validation experience as part of a CPU, SoC and/or IP development team.
- Strong Leadership skills
- Experience with high-speed IO (ethernet, PCIe)
- Understanding of board level schematics
- Understanding of system level software and firmware
- Demonstrated success in hardware/software debug efforts
- Strong communication, collaboration and teamwork skills and ability to lead, grow, and contribute to diverse and inclusive teams
- Hands on expertise debugging silicon failures using on chip debug features (like trace or JTAG) as well as test equipment (like protocol analyzers, bit error rate testers, logic analyzers, high speed oscilloscopes)
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
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Chief Financial Officer
Vice Chair and President
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