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Microsoft Silicon, Cloud Hardware, and Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE) is the team behind Microsoft’s expanding Cloud Infrastructure and responsible for powering Microsoft’s “Intelligent Cloud” mission. SCHIE delivers the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's over 200 online businesses including Bing, MSN, Office 365, Xbox Live, Teams, OneDrive, and the Microsoft Azure platform globally with our server and data center infrastructure, security and compliance, operations, globalization, and manageability solutions. Our focus is on smart growth, high efficiency, and delivering a trusted experience to customers and partners worldwide and we are looking for passionate engineers to help achieve that mission.

The Compute Silicon & Manufacturing Engineering (CSME) organization within SCHIE is responsible for design, development, manufacturing and packaging of Microsoft's state-of-the-art computer chips, notably the Azure Cobalt. Our solutions provide sustainable strategic advantage to Microsoft and enable our customers to achieve more.

As Microsoft's cloud business continues to grow the ability to deploy new offerings and hardware infrastructure on time, in high volume with high quality and lowest cost is of paramount importance. To achieve this goal, the Silicon Validation team is instrumental in defining and delivering operational measures of success for hardware manufacturing, improving the planning process, quality, delivery, scale and sustainability related to Microsoft cloud hardware. We are looking for seasoned engineers with a dedicated passion for customer focused solutions, insight and industry knowledge to envision and implement future technical solutions that will manage and optimize the Cloud infrastructure.

We are looking for a **Senior SoC HW (Security/Functional) Validation Engineer** to join the team.

Responsibilities

The Silicon computing development team is seeking passionate, driven and intellectually curious engineers to join the post-silicon validation (including functional, electrical, and power/performance aspects) team for our projects. This new team will be involved in numerous projects within Microsoft developing custom silicon for a diverse set of systems. We are responsible for delivering cutting-edge, custom SoC designs that can perform complex and high-performance functions in the most efficient manner. As a technical individual contributor in this high impact role on the team, you will:

+ Own post-silicon validation of one of the following areas: Security and cross SoC functional interfaces.

+ Define, guide, and contribute to the implementation of silicon debug tools and capabilities.

+ **Become an expert on the overall architecture, implementation of SoC security requirements and their interactions with other parts of the SoC, with the platform, and with software.**

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

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

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

+ Execute content in post-silicon, triage, debug and assess security impact of failures.

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

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

+ Apply your One Microsoft value and security first mentality to 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.

We will only achieve our mission if we live our culture. We start by becoming learners in all things—having a growth mindset. Then we apply that mindset to learning about our customers, being diverse and inclusive, working together as one, and—ultimately—making a difference in the world.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

+ 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.

+ 3+ years doing SOC security validation or testing

+ 5+ years of experience in the role that involves silicon security threat analysis, security audits, secure boot, or trusted execution.

Other Requirements:

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 Qualifications:

+ Proficient communication, collaboration and teamwork skills and 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.

+ Leadership skills.

+ Technical focused skills: threat modeling, security audits, secure boot, root of trust, or trusted execution technologies knowledge.

+ Ability to develop synthetic SoC validation content for Core, Coherency, Memory, and IO to run on both bare metal and OS environments.

+ Ability to develop sophisticated tools/scripts to support SoC validation debug and error handling.

+ 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 (like trace or JTAG) as well as test equipment (like oscilloscopes, protocol analyzers, logic analyzers).

Silicon Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $158,400 - $258,000 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

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until October 23, 2025.

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Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html) .