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Microsoft · 1 day ago

Principal Validation Engineer

Mountain View, CA

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$140K/yr - $275K/yr

6+ years exp

Microsoft is seeking a Principal Validation Engineer to join their Artificial Intelligence Silicon Engineering team, which is dedicated to delivering cutting-edge AI designs. The role involves developing validation strategies, executing post-silicon testing, and providing technical leadership within a collaborative environment.

Agentic AIApplication Performance ManagementArtificial Intelligence (AI)Business DevelopmentDevOpsInformation ServicesInformation TechnologyManagement Information SystemsNetwork SecuritySoftware

Growth Opportunities

No H1B

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Develop validation strategy, requirements, environments, tools, and methodologies including debug board and hardware/software requirements

Apply your knowledge of validation principles and techniques and your judgement to write test plans and implement them by developing test content, scripts, tools, and other verification collateral

Execute content in post-silicon, triage, and debug failures

Apply your growth mindset to learn and adapt in a complex and dynamic environment

Engage with partners to drive continuous improvement to design, validation plans/collateral, and methodology to prevent, reduce, and/or find bugs sooner, more easily, or more reliably

Provide technical guidance, coaching, and mentorship to other engineers in your areas of expertise

Collaborate with and influence architects, logic designers, verification engineers, other post-silicon validators, and IP and tool providers

Delight your customers by providing high quality results on schedule

Provide technical leadership with respect and integrity

Apply your expertise towards pre-silicon verification plans, tests, and debug of your area

Qualification

Post-Silicon validationSoC validation principlesDebugging silicon failuresComputer ArchitectureHigh-speed IOPythonC/C++Leadership experienceCommunication skillsCollaboration skillsTeamwork skills

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. 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

Applied understanding of Computer Architecture and SoC validation principles, including: Broad understanding of SoC subsystem, SoC system level, and platform level functionality

Writing scripts/software with industry standard languages such as Python or C/C++

Leadership experience driving Post-Silicon validation and characterization and successful execution

Demonstrated success in running cross-disciplinary taskforces

Verification, logic design or validation experience as part of a CPU, SoC and/or IP development team

Proven leadership skills

Experience with high-speed IO (ethernet, PCIe)

Understanding of board level schematics

Understanding of system level software and firmware

Demonstrated success in hardware/software debug efforts

Communication, collaboration and teamwork skills and ability to lead, grow, and contribute to diverse and inclusive teams

Hands on expertise debugging silicon failures using on chip debug features (like trace or JTAG) as well as test equipment (like protocol analyzers, bit error rate testers, logic analyzers, high speed oscilloscopes)