Microsoft · 23 hours ago
Principal Design Verification Engineer
Mountain View, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$140K/yr - $275K/yr
8+ years expMicrosoft is a highly innovative company that collaborates across disciplines to produce cutting edge technology that changes our world. The AI Silicon Engineering (AISiE) SoC Design Verification team is seeking passionate, driven, and intellectually curious silicon verification engineers to develop environments and test cases to verify Microsoft’s latest AI accelerators.
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Responsibilities
Creation of complex verification environments and tests, pre-silicon functional verification at the block, chip and system level, reference modeling and post-silicon validation
Interact with architects and design engineers to create verification plans covering strategy, test environments & tests, and verification requirements for IP/SS/SOC level verification
Create and drive test-plans and test development to provide complete features coverage
Develop and implement technical solutions to complex quality and design challenges
Develop verification components like scoreboards, sequences, constraints, assertions and functional coverage
Triage and debug testbench, simulation, and emulation fails
Develop Makefiles and scripts for scalable and efficient verification
Apply Agile development methodologies including code reviews, sprint planning, and frequent deployment
Collaborate with teams across sites and geographies
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. 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
9+ years of experience in creating simulation environments, developing tests, and debugging for multiple silicon IP's or systems
5+ years' industry experience of chip and/or computer architecture
5+ years industry experience in Verilog or VHDL, C/C++, and scripting language such as Python, Ruby or Perl
CPU or Graphics core verification experience
In depth knowledge of verification principles, testbenches, stimulus generation, System Verilog, UVM, and coverage closure
Experience with hardware design for embedded systems
Firmware development, with secure and non-secure boot flow
Experience with hardware emulation or FPGAs
Design experience or ability to write synthesizable code
Software development experience
Excellent communication skills
Company
Microsoft
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