Senior Design Verification 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 partnersworldwideand we are looking for passionateengineers to help achieve that mission.

As Microsoft's cloud business continues to grow the ability to deploy new offerings and hardware infrastructure on time, in high volume with high quality and lowest cost is of paramount importance. To achieve this goal, the AI Silicon Engineering (AISiE) SoC Design Verification team is instrumental in defining and delivering operational measures of success for hardware manufacturing, improving the planning process, quality, delivery, scale and sustainability related to Microsoft cloud hardware. We are looking for engineers with a dedicated passion for customer focused solutions, insight and industry knowledge to envision and implement future technical solutions that will manage and optimize the Cloud infrastructure.

We are looking for aSenior Design Verification Engineerto join the team.

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• Buid,validateand automate emulation models with constant improvement inruntime efficiency. Preferred platforms include Zebu and Palladium.

• Develop complex verification environments and test suites, including pre-silicon functional verification at the block, chip, and system levels, reference modeling, and post-silicon validation.

• Collaborate with architects and design engineers to define verification plans, including strategy, test environments, and requirements for IP/Subsystem/SoC-level verification.

• Create and drive comprehensive test plans and develop tests to ensure full feature coverage.

• Design and implement technical solutions to address complex design and quality challenges.

• Develop verification components such as scoreboards, sequences, constrained random tests, assertions, and functional coverage models.

• Triage and debug failures in testbenches, simulations, and emulation environments.

• DevelopMakefilesand automation scripts to enable scalable and efficientverificationflows.

• Apply Agile methodologies, including participation in code reviews, sprint planning, and continuous integration practices.

• Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams across multiple sites and geographies

Required Qualifications:

• Doctorate in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 1+ year(s) technical engineering experience OR Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience OR Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 5+ years technical engineering experience OR equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 6+ years of experience in creatingemulation andsimulation environments, developing tests, and debugging for multiple silicon IP's or systems.

• 3+ years' industry experience of chip and/or computer architecture.

• 3+yearsindustry experience in Verilog, C/C++, and scriptinglanguagesuch as Python,Rubyor Perl

• CPU or Graphics core verification experience

• Experience with hardware emulation or FPGAs.

• In depth knowledge of verification principles, testbenches, stimulus generation, System Verilog, UVM, and coverage closure.

• Experience with hardware design for embedded systems.

• Firmware development, with secure and non-secure boot flow.

• Design experience or ability to write synthesizable code.

• Software development experience.

• Communication skills.

Other Requirements:
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements arerequiredfor this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will berequiredto pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

This role will require access to information that is controlled for export under export control regulations, potentially under the U.S. International Traffic in Arms Regulations or Export Administration Regulations, the EU Dual Use Regulation, and/or other export control regulations.As a condition of employment, the successful candidate willbe requiredto provide either proof of their country of citizenship or proof of their US. residency or other protected status(e.g., under 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)) for assessment of eligibility to access the export-controlled information.To meet this legal requirement, and as a condition of employment, the successful candidate's citizenship will be verified with a valid passport. Lawful permanent residents, refugees, and asylees may verify status using other documents, where applicable.