Senior SoC HW (Analog/Functional) Validation Engineer
Technology, Data & Digital · Software & Web Development · Software Engineering
In short
Microsoft is looking for a Senior SoC HW (Analog/Functional) Validation Engineer to join their Compute Silicon & Manufacturing Engineering team. This role will be responsible for post-silicon validation of custom SoCs, including defining validation strategy, developing test content, and debugging failures. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in hardware engineering and experience with validation principles.
Responsibilities
- Own post-silicon validation of PLL, IO electrical/analog, or functional IO interfaces.
- Define, guide, and contribute to the implementation of silicon debug tools and capabilities.
- Become an expert on the overall architecture and implementation of high-speed IO interfaces (PLL, PCI, CXL, etc.).
- Provide technical guidance, coaching, and mentorship to other engineers.
- Develop validation strategy, requirements, environments, tools, and methodologies.
- Apply knowledge of validation principles and techniques to write test plans and implement them.
- Execute content in post-silicon, triage and debug failures.
- Engage with partners to drive continuous improvement to the design, validation plans, and methodology.
- Collaborate with architects, logic designers, verification engineers, and other stakeholders.
- Apply expertise towards pre-silicon verification plans, tests, and debug.
Requirements
- 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.
- Proof of citizenship or US residency for export control regulations.
- Valid passport for citizenship verification.
Desired Qualifications
- 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.
- Applied understanding of Computer Architecture and CPU/SoC validation principles.
- Proficient communication, collaboration and teamwork skills.
- Ability to lead, grow, and contribute to diverse and inclusive teams.
- Verification, logic development, analog validation, or validation tools experience as part of a CPU, SoC and/or IP development team.
- Demonstrated leadership skills.
- Demonstrated validation expertise in electrical (Serdes, IO, high speed interconnect, analog circuits), power and performance, or automation/content/tools/scripts development.
- Ability to develop synthetic SoC validation Core, Coherency, Memory, and IO content.
- Ability to develop sophisticated tools/scripts to support SoC validation debug activities.
- Understanding of board level schematics.
- Understanding system level software and firmware.
- Experience running silicon content on pre-silicon platforms such as emulation or FPGA.
- Demonstrated success in hardware/software debug efforts.
- Hands-on expertise debugging silicon failures using on-chip debug features and test equipment.
Benefits
- The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 per year.
- For specific work locations in the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, the base pay range 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
Skills
PythonC/C++
#Silicon Engineering#SoC#Hardware Engineering#Analog/Functional Validation
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Company
MicrosoftJob Posted
2 days ago
Employment Type
Full Time
Work mode
Hybrid
Salary
US$119,800–234,700 / year
Experience Level
Senior
Locations
United States
Qualification
Doctoral, Master, Bachelor
Applicants
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