Senior SoC HW (Analog/Functional) 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, high-energy engineers to help achieve that mission.

• Own post-silicon validation of one of the following areas: IO electrical/analog, Functional IO interfaces
• Define, guide, and contribute to the implementation of silicon debug tools and capabilities
• Become an expert in high-speed IO interfaces (e.g., PCI, CXL), including their architecture and implementation
• Provide technical guidance, coaching, and mentorship to other engineers
• Develop validation strategy, requirements, environments, tools, and methodologies
• Write and implement test plans using validation principles and techniques
• Execute test content in post-silicon environment; triage and debug failures
• Apply a growth mindset to learn and adapt in a dynamic environment
• Collaborate with partners to improve design, validation plans, and methodology
• Aim to detect bugs earlier, more reliably, and efficiently
• Embrace a One Microsoft approach by collaborating with architects, logic designers, verification engineers, and other post-silicon validators, IP and tool providers
• Deliver high-quality results on schedule to satisfy customer expectations
• Provide technical leadership with respect and integrity
• Contribute to pre-silicon verification planning, testing, and debugging in your area

• Doctorate in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 1+ year(s) technical engineering experience OR Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience OR Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 5+ years technical engineering experience OR equivalent experience
• 4+ years of experience in SoC subsystem, SoC system level, and platform level functionality and writing scripts/software with industry standard languages like Python or C/C++
• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role
• Proficient communication, collaboration, and teamwork skills, with the ability to lead, grow, and contribute to diverse and inclusive teams
• Experience in verification, logic development, analog validation, or validation tools as part of a CPU, SoC, and/or IP development team
• Leadership skills
• Demonstrated validation expertise in one or more of the following areas: Electrical validation: SerDes, IO, high-speed interconnects, analog circuits, Power and performance validation, Automation, content creation, or tools/scripts development

• Industry leading healthcare
• Educational resources
• Discounts on products and services
• Savings and investments
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Generous time away
• Giving programs
• Opportunities to network and connect

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