Microsoft · 8 hours ago
Senior Silicon Analog/Power Validation Engineer
United States, Oregon, Hillsboro
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
$120K/yr - $235K/yr
5+ years expMicrosoft is the team behind Microsoft’s expanding Cloud Infrastructure and is responsible for powering Microsoft’s 'Intelligent Cloud' mission. They are seeking a Senior Silicon Analog/Power Validation Engineer to work on post-silicon validation for custom silicon projects, delivering cutting-edge SoC designs and providing technical guidance to other engineers.
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Responsibilities
Own post-silicon validation of one of the following areas electrical/analog, or power/performance
Define, guide, and contribute to the implementation of silicon debug tools and capabilities
Become an expert on the overall architecture, implementation of complex power delivery /features/flows 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 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 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 the design, to validation plans/collateral, and methodology to prevent, reduce, and/or find bugs sooner, more easily, or more reliably
Apply your One Microsoft 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
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
A bachelor's or master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science or a related degree
At least 5+ years of experience
Applied understanding of Analog / Mixed-Signal Circuits & validation principles, Understanding of SoC power delivery, platform level functionality and writing scripts/software with industry standard languages like Python or C/C++
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
Demonstrated validation expertise in one or more of the following: Validation of: Electrical: Serdes, IO, SOC power delivery and VR optimization, bandgap circuits, Power and Performance, Automation, Content Creation, or Tools/Scripts Development
Ability to develop sophisticated tools/scripts to support SoC validation debug activities such as maximum power, current transients, and register dumps
Understanding of board level schematics
Understanding system-level software and firmware
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, bit error rate testers, logic
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