Microsoft · 2 days ago
ASIC Verification - Team Lead
Santa Clara, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
$140K/yr - $275K/yr
6+ years expMicrosoft is a leader in technology and cloud infrastructure, and they are seeking an ASIC Verification - Team Lead to enhance their Data Processing Unit team. This role involves improving verification efficiency, leading verification strategies, and collaborating with various teams to ensure performance modeling and post-silicon validation of ASIC designs.
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Responsibilities
Improves verification efficiency through new and updated methodologies or tools. Defines verification strategies and test plans
Owns verification of complex flows at the system on chip (SoC), subsystem (SS), or intellectual property (IP) levels. Drives the development of verification environments, runs, and debugs simulations to drive quality. Influences the product life cycle from definition to silicon, including writing test plans, developing tests, debugging failures and coverage signoff. Leads application of random-stimulus, coverage, formal verification, or other verification techniques to find bugs and meet test plan goals
Works collaboratively with various teams to define performance modeling requirements and ensure technology development planning meets needs. Determines type of performance model needed and appropriate model fidelity. Leads development of the performance model. Organizes analysis of workload information to identify performance bottlenecks. Collaborates across functions to propose architectural/microarchitectural changes and provide quantitative justification. Leads verification of correlation of system on chip (SoC) performance models to RTL implementation
Drives development of tools/scripts and guides team to implement silicon debug tools and capabilities, such as crash dumps, register dumps, triggers and tracing, and closed chassis/remote debug
Develops comprehensive, full-chip validation strategy, requirements, environments, tools, and methodologies, including debug board, hardware/software, and lab requirements. Organizes creation of content to run on both bare metal and operating system (OS) environments (e.g., synthetic system on chip (SoC) validation targeting Core, Coherency, Memory, Input/Output (I/O), Accelerators, Security)
Qualification
Required
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
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role
Preferred
Experience working with large verification projects, including cluster/subsystem and fullchip environments
Ability to lead large scale verification execution, driving multiple senior level verification engineers across geographic regions towards project completion
Develop comprehensive pre-silicon verification test plans based on design specifications and performance requirements
Create and maintain UVM/SystemVerilog-based testbenches for block-level, cluster-level, fullchip and emulation verification
Comfortable and experienced with AI based tools to accelerate productivity
Experience with coverage-driven verification, functional coverage, and code coverage analysis
Execute simulations using industry-standard tools/languages (e.g., SystemVerilog, Perl, C/C++, Assembly, UVM, VCS, Simvision) and analyze results to identify and resolve design issues
Understanding of digital design, computer architecture (ARM, RISC-V, MIPS), and verification methodologies
Familiarity with AMBA protocols (AXI, AHB, APB), ethernet and PCIE interfaces
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define verification scope, coverage goals, and debug strategies
Document verification methodologies, test results, and debug findings for internal reviews and compliance
Participate in design reviews, contribute to architecture discussions, and support post-silicon validation efforts
Debugging skills and ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment
Company
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