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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 partners worldwide and we are looking for a Senior SoC Software Validation Engineer to help achieve that mission.

The Silicon computing development team is seeking a driven and intellectually curious Senior SoC Software Validation Engineer to join the post-silicon validation (including software, functional, electrical, and power/performance aspects) team for our projects. This new team will be involved in numerous projects within Microsoft developing custom silicon for a diverse set of systems. We are responsible for delivering cutting-edge, custom SoC designs that can perform complex and high-performance functions in the most efficient manner.

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 Hardware, Infrastructure Management, and Fundamentals Engineering (HIFE) 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 a Senior SoC Software Validation Engineer with customer focused solutions, insight and industry knowledge to envision and implement future technical solutions that will manage and optimize the Cloud infrastructure.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.

Responsibilities

• Define, guide, and contribute to the implementation of silicon content tools and capabilities.

• Apply your knowledge of validation principles and techniques and your judgement to develop, scripts, tools, and other validation collateral.

• Ability to develop synthetic System on Chip(SoC) validation Core, Coherency, Memory, and Input output(IO) content to run on both bare metal and operating system(OS) environments.

• Develop validation solutions, requirements, environments, tools, and methodologies including hardware/software requirements.

• Become proficient on the overall architecture, implementation of complex features/flows/protocols, plus their interactions with other parts of the SoC, the platform, and the software.

• Provide technical guidance, coaching, and mentorship to other engineers in your area.

• 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 the design, to validation plans/collateral, and methodology to prevent, reduce, and/or find bugs sooner, more easily, or more reliably.

• Apply your One Microsoft mentality to collaborate with and influence architects, logic designers, verification engineers, other post-silicon validators, and Intellectual Property(IP) and tool providers.

• Delight your customers by providing high quality results on schedule.

• Provide technical leadership with respect and integrity.

• Other

• Embody our Culture (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/about/corporate-values) and Values (https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/culture)

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• 7+ years of related technical engineering experience

• OR Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience or internship experience

• OR Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 3+ years technical engineering experience or internship experience

• OR Doctorate degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.

• Writing scripts/software with industry standard languages like Python or C/C++.

• Applied understanding of Computer Architecture and Central processing Unit(CPU)/SoC validation principles, including:

• Understanding of SoC subsystem, SoC system level, and platform level functionality.

Other Requirements:

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

Preferred Qualifications:

• Proficient communication, collaboration and teamwork skills and ability to lead, grow, and contribute to diverse and inclusive teams.

• Validation tools, verification, validation, or logic development experience as part of a CPU, SoC and/or IP development team.

• Leadership skills

• Demonstrated validation expertise in one or more of the following:

• Ability to develop sophisticated tools/scripts to support SoC validation debug activities such as crash dumps and register dumps.

• Ability to develop and build kernels and modify existing commercial OS images adding SoC validation debug hooks, drivers, and various capabilities into them (Linux and/or Windows operating systems).

• Understanding system level software and firmware.

• Experience running silicon content on pre-silicon platforms such as emulation or Field Programmable Gate Array(FPGA).

• Demonstrated success in hardware/software debug efforts.

• Experience with Azure DevOps or equivalent operational frameworks.

• Validation of:

• Functional: Core, Perpheral Component Interconnect Express(PCIe), Memory Controller, Security, IO, Power Management, Coherency, Manageability, Basic Input Output System(BIOS)/Microcode development and debug, or Fuses.

• Electrical: Memory, IO, Signal Integrity, or Clocking.

• Power and Performance.

Silicon Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $117,200 - $229,200 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $153,600 - $250,200 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until September 16, 2024.

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Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html) .