SoC Hardware Validation Engineer

2 weeks ago


Hillsboro, United States Microsoft Corporation Full time
Job Title: SoC Hardware Validation Engineer

Microsoft Silicon, Cloud Hardware, and Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE) is a team that powers Microsoft's expanding Cloud Infrastructure and is responsible for delivering the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's over 200 online businesses. We are looking for engineers to help achieve our mission of empowering every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.

Job Summary

We are seeking a SoC Hardware Validation Engineer to join our team. As a technical individual contributor, you will be responsible for delivering cutting-edge, custom SoC designs that can perform complex and high-performance functions in the most efficient manner. You will own post-silicon validation of one of the following areas - functional, electrical, or power/performance.

Responsibilities
  • Define, guide, and contribute to the implementation of silicon debug tools and capabilities.
  • Become extremely knowledgeable on the overall architecture, implementation of complex features/flows/protocols, 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.
  • Provide technical leadership with respect and integrity.
  • Apply your knowledge towards pre-silicon verification plans, tests, and debug of your area.
Qualifications
  • 5+ years of related technical engineering experience
  • OR Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 2+ years technical engineering experience or internship experience
  • OR Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 1+ year(s) technical engineering experience or internship experience.
  • 3+ years of CPU/SOC validation experience.
  • 3+ years of platform level knowledge.
  • 3+ years of Script/Software development experience using Python.
Preferred Qualifications
  • Applied understanding of Computer Architecture and CPU/SoC validation principles, including: Understanding of SoC subsystem, SoC system level, and 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, validation, or validation tools experience as part of a CPU, SoC and/or IP development team.
  • Ability to develop and build kernels and modify existing commercial OS images adding SoC validation debug hooks, drivers, and various capabilities into them.
  • Ability to develop synthetic SoC validation Core, Coherency, Memory, and IO content to run on both bare metal and OS environments.
  • Ability to develop sophisticated tools/scripts to support SoC validation debug activities such as crash dumps and register dumps.
  • Understanding of board level schematics.
  • Understanding system level software and firmware.
  • Experience running silicon content on pre-silicon platforms such as emulation or FPGA.
  • 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 protocol analyzers, bit error rate testers, logic analyzers, oscilloscopes).
What We Offer

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until October 8, 2024. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.



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