Senior Verification Engineer

Overview

We are looking for a Senior Verification Engineer to join the Compute Silicon & Manufacturing Engineering (CSME) organization within Microsoft Silicon, Cloud Hardware, and Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE). The team designs, develops, manufactures and packages Microsoft's state-of-the-art custom computer chips, notably the Azure Cobalt, and supports scalable cloud infrastructure across Microsoft’s online businesses and Azure platform. The role focuses on pre-silicon verification and related validation activities to enable high-volume, high-quality hardware deployment with cost effectiveness.

• Pre-silicon functional verification, creation of verification environments and tests at the block and sub-system level
• Reference modeling, emulation, and post-silicon validation

• 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
• 4+ years of experience in developing test plans, creating simulation environments, developing tests, and debugging for multiple IPs, SoCs or systems
• 2+ years of experience leading pre-silicon verification of blocks and sub-systems through full cycle
• 2+ years of experience in mentoring individual engineers

• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements
• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: required at hire/transfer and every two years thereafter

• Experience in working with AI and motivation to utilize AI in day-to-day work
• Experience with PCIe subsystems
• Experience with formal verification methods
• Experience in RTL design for FPGA or emulation
• Experience in Assembly, startup code and linker scripts
• Experience in developing makefiles for software development
• Proficient in System Verilog, C/C++, and scripting languages such as Python, Ruby or Perl
• Knowledge of verification principles, test benches, stimulus generation
• Experience with random-stimulus and coverage-based techniques along with test plan definition
• Background in creating UVM Test Benches, developing tests, and debugging designs
• Understanding of chip and/or computer architecture
• Experience writing tests in C and C++

• Employment type:
  
  Full-time
• Seniority level:
  Not Applicable
• Job function:
  Software Development

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