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Senior SoC HW (Power & Performance) Validation Engineer

Microsoft· Silicon Engineering
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Hillsboro, OR$119.8k - $234.7kFull-timePosted 4d ago

About the role

Senior SoC HW (Power & Performance) Validation Engineer responsible for post-silicon validation strategy, power/performance characterization, and cross-layer debugging to optimize cloud silicon performance and efficiency for Microsoft Cloud Hardware and Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE).

Responsibilities

  • Own the post-silicon Power & Performance validation strategy and execution, including performance, power, thermal, functional, and electrical characterization across workloads and operating conditions.
  • Define silicon performance and power characterization methodology across PVT, voltage/frequency operating points, DVFS, power states, and representative system workloads.
  • Develop and drive performance validation plans covering compute, memory, interconnect, I/O, power management, and system-level workload behavior.
  • Define, guide, and contribute to silicon debug, telemetry, profiling, and analysis capabilities needed to identify performance bottlenecks, power inefficiencies, and unexpected silicon behavior.
  • Partner with architecture, design, firmware, OS, verification, platform, and workload teams to translate product performance and power goals into measurable post-silicon validation requirements.
  • Analyze performance, power, and thermal data to identify bottlenecks, regressions, and optimization opportunities, driving issues from detection through root cause and resolution.
  • Develop validation environments, automation, workloads, benchmarks, tools, scripts, and methodologies needed for efficient Power & Performance characterization and debug.
  • Execute post-silicon validation and characterization, triage complex cross-layer issues, and correlate behavior across silicon, firmware, OS, platform, and workload layers.
  • Drive performance-per-watt, workload efficiency, and system-level optimization, partnering with architecture and engineering teams to improve product competitiveness.
  • Engage with design and verification partners to shift Power & Performance validation left, improving pre-silicon modeling, coverage, correlation, and early issue detection.
  • Apply experience toward pre-silicon Power & Performance verification, including workload definition, performance modeling, test development, and pre-to-post-silicon correlation.
  • Drive continuous improvement in validation methodology, automation, telemetry, and analytics to find performance and power issues earlier and accelerate root cause.
  • Coordinate across multiple organizations on Power & Performance requirements, milestones, dependencies, deliverables, and execution.
  • Provide technical leadership, coaching, and mentorship in areas such as performance analysis, power management, workload characterization, silicon debug, and validation methodology.
  • Apply a growth mindset to rapidly learn and adapt as silicon architectures, workloads, firmware, and system requirements evolve.
  • Demonstrate a One Microsoft mindset, influencing across organizational boundaries and building alignment among architecture, design, verification, firmware, OS, platform, and validation teams.
  • Deliver high-quality, data-driven Power & Performance results on schedule, enabling product decisions and readiness.
  • Provide technical leadership with respect, integrity, engineering rigor, and effective customer focus.

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:Power & Performance validationWorkload characterizationTelemetry and analytics
Nice to have:Python or C/C++ scripting

Benefits

  • Benefits information available at https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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