IP Verification Engineer II at Microsoft

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 Microsofts 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 a IP Verification Engineer II to help achieve that mission.

As Microsofts cloud business continues to grow the ability to deploy new offerings and hardware infrastructure on time, in high volume with high quality and lowest cost is of paramount importance. To achieve this goal, the Cloud Compute Development Organization (CCDO) team is instrumental in defining and delivering operational measures of success for the Cobalt program through hardware manufacturing, improving the planning process, quality, delivery, scale and sustainability related to Microsoft cloud hardware. CCDO is at the forefront of innovation and application of Artificial Intelligence(AI) to silicon development workflows. We are looking for IP Verification Engineer II with customer focused solutions, insight and industry knowledge to envision and implement future technical solutions that will manage and optimize the Cloud infrastructure.

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.

In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of related technical engineering experience
  • OR Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 2+ years technical engineering experience or internship experience
  • OR Masters degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 1+ year(s) technical engineering experience or internship experience.
• 3+ years of pre-silicon System on Chip (SOC), chip level, subsystem or IP verification experience.

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.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Demonstrated experience on one or more of the following: coherency, caches, fabrics, power management, design for debug (DFD), Double Data Rate (DDR) controllers, virtualization, interrupts, security, Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe), Compute Express Link (CXL), Universal Serial Bus (USB), low speed IOs (SPI, I3C, etc.), Advanced eXtensible Interface(AXI)/Coherent Hub Interface(CHI) protocol bridges or other complex IP/blocks or subsystems.
• Experience with IP verification for a full product cycle from definition to silicon, including writing IP/block or subsystem level test plans, developing tests, debugging failures and coverage signoff.
• Experience creating, maintaining, or integrating test benches, checkers and stimulus using System Verilog Test Bench (SVTB), Universal Verification Methodology (UVM), Formal Verification and/or C.
• Experience in automating verification processes using Python or another scripting language.

Silicon Engineering IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $98,300 - $193,200 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $127,200 - $208,800 per year.

Microsoft will accept applications and processes offers for these roles on an ongoing basis.

Responsibilities

• Own verification of one or more aspects/features of a custom Intellectual Property (IP), logic block, or IP subsystem integration.
• Make use of and contribute to industry-leading Generative AI verification tools and flows.
• Learn about complex designs and interact with partner teams todefine verification strategies and test plans. 
• Develop verification environments that run and debug simulations to drive quality. 
• Apply random-stimulus, coverage-based and/or formal verification techniques to find bugs and meet test plangoals. 
• Innovate to improve verification efficiency through methodologies or tools.
• Demonstrate Microsoftcore values: Customer Focus, Adaptability, Collaboration, Growth Mindset, Drive for Results, Influence for Impact, Judgement, and Diversity & Inclusion.