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Principal Physical Design Engineer

Job in Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina, 27698, USA
Listing for: Microsoft
Full Time, Part Time position
Listed on 2026-10-23
Job specializations:
  • Engineering
    Systems Engineer, Hardware Engineer, Electrical Engineering
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 165600 - 296400 USD Yearly USD 165600.00 296400.00 YEAR
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Job d:

Location:

United States, North Carolina, Raleigh Salary: USD $165,600 - $296,400 per year

Employment type:

Full-Time Work site: 3 days / week in-office

Role type:
Individual Contributor Travel:
Less than 25%
Profession:
Hardware Engineering Discipline:
Silicon Engineering Company:
Microsoft Overview 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, One Drive, 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 partners worldwide and we are looking for engineers to help achieve that mission.

The Compute Silicon & Manufacturing Engineering (CSME) organization within SCHIE is responsible for design, development, manufacturing and packaging of Microsoft's state-of-the-art computer chips, notably the Azure Cobalt. Our solutions provide sustainable strategic advantages to Microsoft and enable our customers to achieve more.

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 Microsoft’s Compute Silicon & Manufacturing Engineering 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 a Principal Physical Design Engineer to join the team to support our mission as a key role with silicon design.#SCHIE #CSMEResponsibilities

The candidate for this position will be expected and able to complete the following responsibilities:

Lead and Execute end-to-end PD flow from synthesis through place-and-route for multiple designs, ensuring completion of all signoff stages including timing, physical verification, EMIR, formal equivalence, and low-power verification.  Responsible for clock construction and CTS.Drive methodology exploration activities to optimize SOC blocks for clock construction and related methodology.

Coordinate with CAD, RTL/Design teams/DFT, Architecture team, Power & Performance team, Technology team & other internal/external partners as essential. Responsible for RTL to GDS implementation and ownership in Physical Design domain. Influence design tools, flows, and methodologies in construction, signoff, and optimization through a data-driven approach.  Foster collaboration across teams to deliver the best possible solutions, aligned with a One Microsoft mindset.

Demonstrate leadership and technical expertise across various domains of Physical Design. Clear communications on project status & planning. Demonstrate Microsoft core values:
Customer Focus, Adaptability, Collaboration, Growth Mindset, Drive for Results, Influence for Impact, Judgement, and Diversity & Inclusion. Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

Doctorate in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 7+ years technical engineering experience OR Master's Degree in Electrical…
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