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 partners worldwide and we are looking for a Senior Design Verification Engineer to help achieve that mission.

The silicon computing development team in Raleigh is seeking a Senior Design Verification Engineer to deliver premium-quality designs once considered impossible. Our team is involved in numerous projects within Microsoft developing custom silicon for a diverse set of systems ranging from traditional computing solutions to artificial intelligence and augmented reality. We are responsible for delivering cutting-edge, custom Central Processing Unit(CPU) and System on Chip(SoC) designs that can perform complex and high-performance functions in an extremely efficient manner. 

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

• Establish yourself as an integral member of a pre-silicon verification team owning verification of SoC and integration of components and/or SoC level flows.
• Become proficient on the SoC coherent fabric and its interaction with other Internet Protocol(IPs).
• Develop verification strategy, testplans, requirements, environments, tools, and methodologies.
• Define, document, and implement a from-scratch Universal Verification Methodology(UVM) verification environment including agents and scoreboards for a design.
• Apply your knowledge of 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, 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 both the design, to verification plans/collateral, and to 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.
• Other
  • Embody our Culture and Values  

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.
• 5+ years of experience working on Computer Architecture and SoC design and verification principles, including:
  • Using industry standard Hardware Description Languages(HDLs) like SystemVerilog
  • Developing and using UVM verification environments
  • Writing scripts/software with industry standard languages such as Python or C++