Director Physical Design Engineer
MicrosoftAbout the role
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 passionate, high-energy engineers to help achieve that mission.
As Microsoft's cloud business continues to grow the ability to develop new generation silicon is of paramount importance. To achieve this goal, Microsoft’s Cloud Compute Development Organization (CCDO) is seeking a Physical Design (PD) CPU/High performance Intellectual Property (IP) design Lead/Engineer who is technically driven to join our silicon hardware physical design team, covering leadership, Register Transfer Level (RTL)to design ownership. We are responsible for delivering cutting-edge, High performance Central Processing Unit (CPU) & Custom Accelerator based in-house System on Chip (SOC) designs, which is instrumental in advancing Azure's server-class product roadmap. This team will be involved in numerous projects within Microsoft developing SOC silicon for Azure data centers.
We are looking for a Director Physical Design Engineer to join the team.
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.
Responsibilities
- Manage & Lead a Physical Design team responsible for RTL to GDS2 implementation for IPs , sub-chips/sub-systems and/or SOC level design (in latest tech node).
- Manage direct reports through goal setting, mentoring, coaching, career planning, and assessing performance.
- Coordinate with CAD, RTL/Design teams, Architecture team, Power& Performance team, Package team, Technology team & other internal/external partners.
- Lead & Influence in TFM (Tools, Flows, and Methodology) & PPAS (Power, Performance, Area & Schedule) for design construction to signoff.
- Demonstrate technical expertise across various domains of Physical Design & Timing Signoff (E2E).
- Clear communications on project status & planning.
- Collaborate across various geographic locations based on need.
People Management
- Managers deliver success through empowerment and accountability by modeling, coaching, and caring.
- Model - Live our culture; Embody our values; Practice our leadership principles.
- Coach - Define team objectives and outcomes; Enable success across boundaries; Help the team adapt and learn.
- Care - Attract and retain great people; Know each individual’s capabilities and aspirations; Invest in the growth of others.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
- 9+ years of related technical engineering experience
- OR Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 5+ 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 Doctorate degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 2+ years technical engineering experience.
- 8+ years of experience in semiconductor production design tapeouts & implementing designs through synthesis, floor-planning, place and route, extraction, timing, EMIR closure
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