Microsoft Silicon, Cloud Hardware, and Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE) is the team behind Microsoft’s expanding Cloud Infrastructure and responsible for powering Microsoft’s “Intelligent Cloud” mission. SCHIE delivers the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's over 200 online businesses including Bing, MSN, Office 365, Xbox Live, Teams, OneDrive, and the Microsoft Azure platform globally with our server and data center infrastructure, security and compliance, operations, globalization, and manageability solutions. Our focus is on smart growth, high efficiency, and delivering a trusted experience to customers and partners worldwide and we are looking for passionate engineers to help achieve that mission.

As Microsoft's cloud business continues to grow the ability to deploy new offerings and hardware infrastructure on time, in high volume with high quality and lowest cost is of paramount importance. To achieve this goal, the CCDO team is instrumental in defining and delivering operational measures of success for hardware manufacturing, improving the planning process, quality, delivery, scale and sustainability related to Microsoft cloud hardware. We are looking for seasoned engineers with a dedicated passion for customer focused solutions, insight and industry knowledge to envision and implement future technical solutions that will manage and optimize the Cloud infrastructure.

We are looking for an Individual contributor to join the team

Responsibilities

• Own verification of one or more aspects/features of a custom Intellectual Property (IP), logic block, or IP subsystem integration

• Make use of and contribute to industry-leading Generative AI verification tools and flows

• Learn about complex designs and interact with partner teams to define verification strategies and test plans

• Develop verification environments that run and debug simulations to drive quality

• Apply random-stimulus, coverage-based and/or formal verification techniques to find bugs and meet test plan goals

• Innovate to improve verification efficiency through methodologies or tools

• Demonstrate Microsoft core values: Customer Focus, Adaptability, Collaboration, Growth Mindset, Drive for Results, Influence for Impact, Judgement, and Diversity & Inclusion

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications :

• 3+ years of pre-silicon IP/block or sub-system verification experience

• Candidate must have at least a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical, Computer Engineering, Computer Science or a related degree

Preferred Qualifications:

• Demonstrated experience on one or more of the following: coherency, caches, fabrics, power management, design for debug (DFD), Double Data Rate (DDR) controllers, virtualization, interrupts, security, Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe), Compute Express Link (CXL), Universal Serial Bus (USB), AXI protocol bridges or other complex IP/blocks or subsystems

• Experience with IP verification for a full product cycle from definition to silicon, including writing IP/block or subsystem level test plans, developing tests, debugging failures and coverage signoff

• Experience creating, maintaining, or integrating test benches, checkers and stimulus using System Verilog Test Bench (SVTB), Universal Verification Methodology (UVM), Formal Verification and/or C

• Experience in automating verification processes using Python or another scripting language

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter

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 (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html) .