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Senior Silicon Design Engineer

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Redmond, WA, USA
120K-261K Annually
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Redmond, WA, USA
120K-261K Annually
Senior level
Design high-performance, high-bandwidth Network-on-Chip IP for AI SoCs. Work on microarchitecture specification, RTL design, synthesis, CDC/Lint/FEV closure, PPA trade-offs, and SoC integration while collaborating with architecture, verification, and physical design teams.
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Overview

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.  

We are looking for a Senior Design Engineer to work in the dynamic Microsoft Artificial Intelligence System on Chip (AISoC) Silicon team. The candidate must be a highly motivated self-starter who will thrive in this cutting-edge technical environment. 
 
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. 
 

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Responsibilities

You will be part of the design team driving many facets of high performance, high bandwidth Network-on-Chip designs in the start-of-the-art AI SoCs. The tasks will include working on Intellectual Property (IP) microarchitecture specification, Register Transfer Level (RTL) design, synthesis/Lint/CDC/FEV and System on Chip (SOC) integration on different subsystems. Throughout the program you will be interacting with various teams, including architecture, verification, and physical design, ensuring that the design is implemented and verified to the spec.


Qualifications

Required Qualifications:  

  • 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.

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. 

This role will require access to information that is controlled for export under export control regulations, potentially under the U.S. International Traffic in Arms Regulations or Export Administration Regulations, the EU Dual Use Regulation, and/or other export control regulations.  As a condition of employment, the successful candidate will be required to provide either proof of their country of citizenship or proof of their US. residency or other protected status (e.g., under 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)) for assessment of eligibility to access the export-controlled information. To meet this legal requirement, and as a condition of employment, the successful candidate’s citizenship will be verified with a valid passport. Lawful permanent residents, refugees, and asylees may verify status using other documents, where applicable.  

Preferred Qualifications: 

  • 4+ years of experience delivering successful IP or Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASIC)/SOC designs. 

  • 4+ years expertise in Digital Design including microarchitecture specification development, RTL coding in Verilog/System Verilog and Clock Domain Crossing (CDC)/LINT closure. 

  • 4+ years of experience in Synthesis, Timing constraints, Power, Performance, Area (PPA) trade-offs and Post-Silicon Debug 

  • 4+ years of experience with Synthesis, Standard Design Constraints (SDC) and Unified Power format UPF 

  • 4+ years of experience working on SOC integration 

  • Experience with industry standard interfaces such as Advanced extensible Interface (AXI), APB, JTAG 

  • Experience with writing System Verilog assertions and coverpoints 

  • Experience with scripting languages such as Perl or Python 

  • Track record of successful tapeouts in deep sub-micron technologies 

  • Communication skills and the ability to facilitate collaboration across Microsoft internal groups and external vendors 

  • Ability and willingness to adapt and work on variety of designs 

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Silicon Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 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 $160,200 - $261,000 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay


This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.



Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.

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