SoC Hardware Validation Engineer

$127,200 - $208,800/Yr

Microsoft - Hillsboro, OR

Full-time - Mid Level

Remote - Hillsboro, OR

Publishing Industries

About the position

The SoC Hardware Validation Engineer will be part of the Silicon, Cloud Hardware, and Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE) team, which is responsible for powering the "Intelligent Cloud" mission. This team delivers the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for over 200 online businesses, including Bing, MSN, Office 365, Xbox Live, Teams, OneDrive, and the Azure platform globally. The focus is on smart growth, high efficiency, and delivering a trusted experience to customers and partners worldwide. The role is crucial in achieving the goal of deploying new offerings and hardware infrastructure on time, in high volume, with high quality and lower cost. The Hardware, Infrastructure Management, and Fundamental Engineering (HIFE) team plays a vital role in defining and delivering operational measures of success for hardware manufacturing, improving planning processes, quality, delivery, scale, and sustainability related to cloud hardware. As a SoC Hardware Validation Engineer, you will be responsible for post-silicon validation, which includes functional, electrical, and power/performance aspects of custom silicon projects. This new team will be involved in numerous projects, delivering cutting-edge, custom SoC designs that perform complex and high-performance functions efficiently. You will own the post-silicon validation of specific areas, define and contribute to the implementation of silicon debug tools and capabilities, and become knowledgeable about the overall architecture and implementation of complex features and their interactions with other parts of the SoC and software. You will also provide technical guidance and mentorship to other engineers, develop validation strategies, requirements, environments, tools, and methodologies, and engage with partners to drive continuous improvement in design and validation processes. The mission of the company is to empower every person and organization on the planet to achieve more. Employees are encouraged to come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize shared goals. The company values respect, integrity, and accountability, creating a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Responsibilities

• Own post-silicon validation of functional, electrical, or power/performance areas.
• Define, guide, and contribute to the implementation of silicon debug tools and capabilities.
• Become knowledgeable on the overall architecture and implementation of complex features and their interactions with the SoC and software.
• Provide technical guidance, coaching, and mentorship to other engineers in your area of expertise.
• Develop validation strategy, requirements, environment, tools, and methodologies including debug board and hardware/software requirements.
• 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/collateral.
• Collaborate with and influence architects, logic designers, verification engineers, and other post-silicon validators.

Requirements

• 5+ years of related technical engineering experience OR a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 2+ years of technical engineering experience or internship experience OR a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 1+ year of 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.
• Ability to meet customer and/or government security screening requirements.

Nice-to-haves

• Applied understanding of Computer Architecture and CPU/SoC validation principles.
• Proficient communication, collaboration, and teamwork skills.
• Experience in verification, logic development, validation, or validation tools as part of a CPU, SoC, and/or IP development team.
• Ability to develop and build kernel and modify existing commercial OS images.
• Ability to develop synthetic SoC validation content for Core, Coherency, Memory, and IO.
• Experience debugging silicon failures using on-chip debug features and test equipment.

Benefits

• Industry leading healthcare
• Educational resources
• Discount on products and services
• Savings and investment options
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Generous time away
• Giving program
• Opportunities to network and connect