Senior Physical Design Engineer
Microsoft· Silicon Engineering
Hillsboro, OR, Mountain View, CA, Austin, TX, Raleigh, NC, Redmond, WA$119.8k - $234.7kFull-timePosted 4d ago
About the role
Microsoft Silicon, Cloud Hardware, and Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE) seeks a Senior Physical Design Engineer to join the Compute Silicon & Manufacturing Engineering (CSME) organization, driving end-to-end physical design for large SOCs, leading signoff, clocking/CTS, and collaboration with cross-functional teams to deliver production-grade silicon for Microsoft cloud infrastructure.
Responsibilities
- Drive end-to-end execution from synthesis through place-and-route for large designs, ensuring completion of all signoff stages including timing, physical verification, EMIR, formal equivalence, and low-power verification.
- Responsible for clock construction and CTS.
- Drive methodology exploration activities to optimize SOC blocks for clock construction and related methodology.
- Coordinate with CAD, RTL/Design teams/DFT, Architecture team, Power & Performance team, Technology team & other internal/external partners as essential.
- Responsible for RTL to GDS implementation in Physical Design domain.
- Influence design tools, flows, and methodologies in construction, signoff, and optimization through a data-driven approach.
- Foster collaboration across teams to deliver the possible solutions, aligned with a One Microsoft mindset.
- Demonstrate technical expertise across various domains of Physical Design.
- Clear communications on project status & planning.
- Demonstrate Microsoft core values: Customer Focus, Adaptability, Collaboration, Growth Mindset, Drive for Results, Influence for Impact, Judgement, and Diversity & Inclusion.
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.
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements (Microsoft Cloud Background Check).
- Citizenship & Citizenship Verification: citizenship verification with a valid passport for export-controlled information.
Skills
Required:End-to-end PD execution (synthesis to signoff)Clock construction and CTSRTL to GDS implementationCross-functional collaboration
Nice to have:Tool/flow optimization
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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