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Principal Physical Design Engineer

Microsoft

Mountain View, California, United States
Full-Time, Individual Contributor
Posted Sep 05, 2025
Up to 50% work from home

About 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.

Responsibilities

  • Responsible for Physical Design tasks at block, sub-chip, and/or full-chip level, including: Design planning, Synthesis, Placement, Clock Tree Synthesis (CTS), Custom clocking, Static Timing Analysis (STA), Physical verification, IR drop and Electromigration (EM) checks, Formal equivalence checks

Requirements

  • Doctorate in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 3+ years technical engineering experience OR Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience OR Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience OR equivalent experience

Benefits

  • 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

About the Company

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.

Job Details

Salary Range

$139,900 - $274,800/yearly

Location

Mountain View, California, United States

Employment Type

Full-Time, Individual Contributor

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