Principal Front-End Silicon CAD Manager

The Microsoft Silicon Engineering Team is seeking a Principal Front -End Silicon CAD Manager to join our Central Front-End Tools, Flows and Methodology (TFM) group. This team drives state-of-the-art converged solutions, automation, and quality assurance checks across Front-End areas such as Continuous Integration, Source Control Management, Verilog Design, Design Verification, Validation, Emulation and IP integration. This team supports numerous simultaneous projects within Microsoft by developing workflows and software for our design engineers so that they can deliver cutting-edge silicon solutions for Microsoft.

Relocation assistance is available for this role within the US.  

Responsibilities

 In this role, you will have a board scope and will lead and manage a team of engineers that will:  

• Be part of a central Front-End CAD (Computer Aided Design) team that drives common Front-End (FE) methodologies for SoC and IP design. 

• Be an expert in the FE domain and act in partnership with the execution team. 

• Provide leadership to the design community for the FE CAD domain. 

• Work with stakeholders across the Microsoft Silicon group to collect TFM requirements. 

• Develop, enhance, and integrate common design and verification IP for organization-wide use.  
• Work with EDA vendors to adopt the most optimal solutions for silicon verification and design. 

• Embody our Culture and Values

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.
• 9+ years of experience in digital design and CAD tool development.  
• 5+ years of experience in personnel management. 
• Familiar with most Front-End Tools, Flows and Methodologies: Logic design, Design Verification, Design for Test (DFT), FE Handoff to Physical Design, Validation, Emulation and FPGA design, Static Tool Analysis, Synthesis, Design Integration, Design and Verification IP Libraries, Verilog Generators, and Low Power design. 

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.

Additional Preferred:  

• MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent work experience. 
• Experience using industry standard HDLs like