Microsoft Senior SoC Software Validation Engineer 

United States, Oregon, Hillsboro 

217629958

Required Qualifications:

• 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 internship experience
  • OR Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 3+ years technical engineering experience or internship experience
  • OR Doctorate degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
• Writing scripts/software with industry standard languages like Python or C/C++.
• Applied understanding of Computer Architecture and Central processing Unit(CPU)/SoC validation principles, including:
  • Understanding of SoC subsystem, SoC system level, and platform level functionality.

Other Requirements:

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.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Proficient communication, collaboration and teamwork skills and ability to lead, grow, and contribute to diverse and inclusive teams.
  • Validation tools, verification, validation, or logic development experience as part of a CPU, SoC and/or IP development team.
• Leadership skills
• Demonstrated validation expertise in one or more of the following:
  • Ability to develop sophisticated tools/scripts to support SoC validation debug activities such as crash dumps and register dumps.
  • Ability to develop and build kernels and modify existing commercial OS images adding SoC validation debug hooks, drivers, and various capabilities into them (Linux and/or Windows operating systems).
  • Understanding system level software and firmware.
  • Experience running silicon content on pre-silicon platforms such as emulation or Field Programmable Gate Array(FPGA).
  • Demonstrated success in hardware/software debug efforts.
  • Experience with Azure DevOps or equivalent operational frameworks.
  • Validation of:
    • Functional: Core, Perpheral Component Interconnect Express(PCIe), Memory Controller, Security, IO, Power Management, Coherency, Manageability, Basic Input Output System(BIOS)/Microcode development and debug, or Fuses.
    • Electrical: Memory, IO, Signal Integrity, or Clocking.
    • Power and Performance.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until September 16, 2024.

• Define, guide, and contribute to the implementation of silicon content tools and capabilities.
• Apply your knowledge of validation principles and techniques and your judgement to develop, scripts, tools, and other validation collateral.
• Ability to develop synthetic System on Chip(SoC) validation Core, Coherency, Memory, and Input output(IO) content to run on both bare metal and operating system(OS) environments.
• Develop validation solutions, requirements, environments, tools, and methodologies including hardware/software requirements.
• Become proficient on the overall architecture, implementation of complex features/flows/protocols, plus their interactions with other parts of the SoC, the platform, and the software.
• Provide technical guidance, coaching, and mentorship to other engineers in your area.
• 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 Intellectual Property(IP) and tool providers.
• Delight your customers by providing high quality results on schedule.
• Provide technical leadership with respect and integrity.
• Other
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