Microsoft · 16 hours ago
Senior Design Verification Engineer
United States, Texas, Austin
Full-time
Hybrid
Mid, Senior Level
$120K/yr - $235K/yr
5+ years expMicrosoft is looking for a Senior Design Verification Engineer to join their Silicon, Cloud Hardware, and Infrastructure Engineering team. The role focuses on developing and validating custom silicon components to support Microsoft's Intelligent Cloud mission.
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Responsibilities
Establish yourself as an integral member of a pre-silicon verification and post-silicon validation team for the development of custom silicon components
Work with a team to write constrained random stimulus, scoreboards and checkers, and assertions to verify design correctness
Develop Verification IP (VIP) components to verify home grown designs
Develop Universal Verification Methodology (UVM) components to interface between test code and verification simulation environments
Define and implement functional coverage and drive coverage closure
Collaborate with Architecture, Design, Firmware/Software, Product Engineering, Program Management and third-party vendor teams to ensure pre-and-post-Si testing is comprehensive
Develop scripts for verification and validation infrastructure
Qualification
Required
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
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
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
3+ years of pre-silicon System on Chip (SOC), chip level, subsystem or IP verification experience
3+ years of experience with verification principles, object-oriented programming, test plan development, testbench creation, stimulus generation, UVM/Open Verification Methodology (OVM), and coverage-based verification
3+ years of experience in SystemVerilog, C/C++, and scripting languages such as Python, Ruby or Perl
Demonstrated experience on one or more of the following: Coherency, Caches, Fabrics, Double Data Rate (DDR) controllers, Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe), Compute Express Link (CXL), Advanced eXtensible Interface(AXI)/Coherent Hub Interface(CHI) protocol bridges or other complex IP/blocks or subsystems
Experience with 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/C++
Experience in automating verification processes using Python or another scripting language
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