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Principal SOC Performance Verification Engineer

Microsoft· Silicon Engineering
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BangaloreFull-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

Microsoft SCHIE (Silicon, Cloud Hardware, and Infrastructure Engineering) seeks a Principal SOC Performance Verification Engineer to contribute to pre-silicon SoC verification, performance analysis, and collaboration across architecture, design, firmware, and verification teams for Microsoft's Azure Cobalt and related SOC initiatives.

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 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

  • 14+ years of pre-silicon SOC or subsystem or IP verification experience.
  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical/Electronics/Computer Engineering, Computer Science or related field
  • 8+ years of verification experience working on CPU/Fabric/DDR/IO designs verification, with 6+ years of performance verification experience

Skills

Required:Performance verificationCPU/SoC/IP verificationTest plan and verification collateral development
Nice to have:C/C++ knowledge

Benefits

  • (Not explicitly listed in the description)
Last updated Oct 16, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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