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Senior Performance Verification Engineer - SoC

Microsoft· Silicon Engineering
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Mountain View, CA, Hillsboro, OR, Raleigh, NC, Austin, TX, Redmond, WA$119.8k - $234.7kfull-timePosted 2w ago

About the role

Senior Performance Verification Engineer for SoC within Microsoft SCHIE, focusing on pre-silicon verification, performance validation, and collaboration with architecture, design, firmware, and emulation to ensure power and performance goals for cloud hardware.

Responsibilities

  • Establish yourself as an integral member of a pre-silicon SoC verification team, owning aspects of performance verification, and aligning with architecture, design, firmware, and emulation.
  • Become knowledgeable on the overall SoC architecture, including tradeoffs that effect power and performance.
  • Develop verification strategy, test plans, requirements, environments, tools, and methodologies.
  • Apply your knowledge of performance verification principles and techniques and your judgement to write test plans and implement them by developing tests, test generators, test benches, checkers, coverage, and other verification collateral.
  • Run tests, correlate results with architecture, debug failures to root cause, recommend fixes.
  • Apply your growth mindset to learn and adapt in a complex and dynamic environment.
  • Engage with partners to drive continuous improvement to the architecture, design, and verification plans/collateral, and to methodology to prevent, reduce, and/or find bugs sooner, more easily, or more reliably.
  • Mentor and coach team members
  • Apply your One Microsoft mentality to collaborate with and influence architects, logic designers, post-silicon validators, other verification engineers, and IP and tool providers.

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.

Skills

Required:SoC performance verificationtest plan developmentdebug and root-cause analysiscollaboration and mentorship

Benefits

  • 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
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