Senior SoC Hardware (Analog/Power) Validation Engineer

$117,200 - $229,200/Yr

Microsoft - Hillsboro, OR

Full-time - Senior

Hillsboro, OR

10,001+ employees

Publishing Industries

About the position

The Senior SoC Hardware (Analog/Power) Validation Engineer will be part of the Silicon computing development team at Microsoft, focusing on post-silicon validation of custom silicon for various systems. This role involves ensuring the performance and efficiency of SoC designs, guiding the implementation of silicon debug tools, and providing mentorship to other engineers. The engineer will engage in developing validation strategies and methodologies, executing tests, and collaborating with various teams to enhance design and validation processes.

Responsibilities

• Own post-silicon validation of electrical/analog or power/performance areas.
• Define, guide, and contribute to the implementation of silicon debug tools and capabilities.
• Become proficient in the overall architecture and implementation of complex power delivery features and their interactions.
• Provide technical guidance, coaching, and mentorship to other engineers.
• Develop validation strategy, requirements, environments, tools, and methodologies.
• 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.
• Engage with partners to drive continuous improvement in design and validation plans.
• Collaborate with architects, logic designers, verification engineers, and other stakeholders.
• Provide high-quality results on schedule.

Requirements

• 7+ years of related technical engineering experience OR Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience OR Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 3+ years technical engineering experience OR Doctorate degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
• Applied understanding of Computer Architecture and CPU/SoC validation principles.
• Understanding of SoC power delivery, subsystem, SoC system level, and platform level functionality.
• Proficiency in writing scripts/software with industry standard languages like Python or C/C++.
• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements.

Nice-to-haves

• Proficient communication, collaboration, and teamwork skills.
• Experience in verification, logic development, analog validation, or validation tools.
• Leadership skills.
• Demonstrated validation experience in electrical, power and performance automation, or tools/scripts development.
• Ability to develop synthetic SoC validation content for various environments.
• Understanding of board level schematics and system level software.

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• 401k
• Paid holidays
• Flexible scheduling
• Professional development
• Tuition reimbursement
• Employee stock purchase plan