Senior SOC Verification Engineer
Microsoft · Posted Oct 23
Software, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and hardware services
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About the role
SCHIE provides cloud infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft services, and CSME designs Microsoft’s chips including Azure Cobalt. The Verification & Validation team supports hardware manufacturing and cloud hardware quality, delivery, scale, and sustainability. This role drives SoC verification strategy and execution for complex IP/SoC designs, including test plans, environments, debugging, and collaboration with architecture, design, firmware, and emulation teams.
What you will do
- Establish yourself as an integral member of a pre-silicon SoC verification team, owning aspects of SoC verification, and aligning with architecture, design, firmware, and emulation.
- Become knowledgeable on the overall SoC architecture.
- Develop verification strategy, test plans, requirements, environments, tools, and methodologies.
- Apply your knowledge of SoC verification principles and techniques and your judgement to write test plans and implement them by developing tests, test generators, test benches, checkers, coverage, and other verification collateral.
- Run tests, correlate results with architecture, debug failures to root cause, and recommend fixes.
- Apply your growth mindset to learn and adapt in a complex and dynamic environment.
- Engage with partners to drive continuous improvement to the architecture, design, and verification of plans/collateral, and methodology to prevent, reduce, and/or find bugs sooner, more easily, or more reliably.
- Mentor and coach team members
- Apply your One Microsoft mentality to collaborate with and influence architects, logic designers, post-silicon validators, other verification engineers, and IP and tool providers.
- Embody our culture and values.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- 10+ years of pre-silicon SOC or subsystem or IP verification experience.
- Candidate should have at least a bachelor’s or master’s degree in electrical, Electronics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science or a related degree
- 6+ years of verification experience working on SOC designs, with 2+ years PCIe/CXL/Data accelerator verification experience
Preferred qualifications
- 10+ years of experience as part of a SoC and/or IP development team focusing on Data accelerators (DMA, compression, decompression, encryption and decryption engine)
- Demonstrated expertise in one or more of the following:
- SoC verification
- ARM architecture
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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