Microsoft Principal Power & Performance Engineer 

United States, Oregon, Hillsboro 

244639425

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• 9+ years of related technical engineering experience
  • OR Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience or internship experience
  • OR Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience or internship experience
  • OR Doctorate degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 3+ years technical engineering experience.

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:

• 8+ years of experience in SOC power architectural trade-off analysis or design
• Deep understanding of computer architecture, SOC and system-software architectures, and their power/performance tradeoffs.
• Experience developing SOC power and performance modeling techniques and benchmarks from conception to microarchitecture specification to post-silicon validation.
• Strong understanding of memory and interconnect sub-systems.
• Knowledge of performance monitors and post-silicon SOC power and performance tuning.
• Familiarity withPnPpower analysis, low power design and power optimization.
• Eexperience in power management and their power/performance tradeoffs
• Solid communication, collaboration and teamwork skills and ability to contribute to diverse and inclusive teams.

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 August 16, 2024.

• Work with business, architecture, and design teams to understand power and performance requirements and collaborate across functional teams to meet these needs in technology development planning and path finding.
• Work with platform, firmware, and software teams across Microsoft to identify opportunities to improve system power and performance management with a goal of improved power efficiency across the stack.
• Develop power and performance modeling methodology by creating and owning SOC (state of change) architectural power models. Project and report power constrained SOC performance results to management
• Work with IP Micro-architects and RTL team to incorporate low power design methodologies and power saving techniques. Identify IP/SOC power saving opportunities and drive definition of power saving uArch features.
• Understand product SOC power and performance interactions with power delivery and thermal solutions at the system level.
• Use case profiling, cloud computing workload analysis and PnP modeling, and correlation/validation to post-silicon.
• Provide technical leadership and collaborate across teams to come up with the best solution possible with a One Microsoft mindset
• Apply your growth mindset to learn and adapt in a complex and dynamic environment.
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