SoC Hardware (Digital, Analog or PnP) Validation Engineer

$105,600 - $174,600/Yr

Microsoft - Hillsboro, OR

Full-time - Mid Level

Hillsboro, OR

10,001+ employees

Publishing Industries

About the position

The SoC Hardware (Digital, Analog or PnP) Validation Engineer will be part of Microsoft's Silicon, Cloud Hardware, and Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE) team, focusing on post-silicon validation for custom silicon projects. This role is crucial for ensuring high-quality, efficient, and timely deployment of hardware infrastructure that supports Microsoft's cloud services. The engineer will engage in functional, electrical, and power/performance validation, contributing to the development of innovative solutions that optimize cloud infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Own post-silicon validation of functional, electrical, or power/performance aspects.
• Define, guide, and contribute to the implementation of silicon debug tools and capabilities.
• Become proficient in the overall architecture and implementation of complex features/flows/protocols.
• 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

• Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
• 4+ years technical engineering experience.
• Applied understanding of Computer Architecture and CPU/SoC validation principles.
• Understanding of SoC 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, validation, or validation tools for CPU, SoC, or IP development.
• Leadership skills and demonstrated validation expertise in various areas.
• Ability to develop and build kernels and modify existing commercial OS images.
• Experience running silicon content on pre-silicon platforms such as emulation or FPGA.
• Hands-on experience debugging silicon failures using on-chip debug features and test equipment.

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• 401k
• 401k matching
• Paid holidays
• Paid time off
• Flexible scheduling
• Professional development opportunities
• Tuition reimbursement
• Employee stock purchase plan