Principal Validation 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 passionate engineers to help achieve that mission.  

The Artificial Intelligence Silicon Engineering team is seeking passionate, driven, and intellectually curious computer/electrical engineers to deliver premium-quality designs once considered impossible.   We are responsible for delivering cutting-edge AI designs that can perform complex and high-performance functions in an extremely efficient manner.  

We are looking for a Principal Validation Engineer to join our 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

• Develop validation strategy, requirements, environments, tools, and methodologies including debug board and hardware/software requirements 

• Apply your knowledge of validation principles and techniques and your judgement to write test plans and implement them by developing test content, scripts, tools, and other verification collateral 

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

• Provide technical guidance, coaching, and mentorship to other engineers in your areas of expertise 

• Collaborate with and influence architects, logic designers, verification engineers, other post-silicon validators, and IP and tool providers 

• Delight your customers by providing high quality results on schedule 

• Provide technical leadership with respect and integrity 

• Apply your expertise towards pre-silicon verification plans, tests, and debug of your area 

Qualifications

Required/Minimum qualifications

• Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 7+ years technical engineering experience OR Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience OR equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of experience in Computer Architecture and SoC validation principles, including: 
  • Broad understanding of SoC subsystem, SoC system level, and platform level functionality 
  • Writing scripts/software with industry standard languages such as Python or C/C++.