Microsoft Principal Design Verification Engineer 

United States, California, Mountain View 

357534993

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.
• 9+ years of experience in creating simulation environments, developing tests, and debugging for multiple silicon IP's or systems.
• 5+ years’ industry experience of chip and/or computer architecture.
• 5+ yearsindustry experience in Verilog or VHDL, C/C++, and scripting language such as Python,Rubyor Perl.

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.
• This role will require access to information that is controlled for export under export control regulations, potentially under the U.S. International Traffic in Arms Regulations or Export Administration Regulations, the EU Dual Use Regulation, and/or other export control regulations.  As a condition of employment, the successful candidate willbe requiredto provide either proof of their country of citizenship or proof of their US. residency or other protected status (e.g., under 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)) for assessment of eligibility to access the export-controlled information. To meet this legal requirement, and as a condition of employment, the successful candidate’s citizenship will be verified with a valid passport. Lawful permanent residents, refugees, and asylees may verify status using other documents, where applicable.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Prior experience in two or more of the following will also be valuable:
• CPU or graphics core verification.
• In depth knowledge of verification principles, testbenches, stimulus generation, System Verilog, UVM, and coverage.
• Experience with hardware design for embedded systems.
• Firmware development, with secure and non-secure boot flow.
• Experience with hardware emulation or FPGAs.
• Design experience or ability to write synthesizable code.
• Software development experience.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Energetic and self-motivated.

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 December 2, 2024.

• Own or lead verification of complex flows at the SOC, subsystem, or IP levels
• Learn about the design and interact with partner teams to define verification strategies and test plans
• Develop verification environments and run and debug simulations to drive quality
• Apply random-stimulus and coverage-based techniques to find bugs and meet test plan goals
• innovate to improve verification efficiency through methodologies or tools
• Plan the verification of complex design IP/SoC interacting with the architecture and design engineers to identify verification test scenarios.
• Coach and mentor others in your areas of expertise
• Demonstrate Microsoft core values: Customer Focus, Adaptability, Collaboration, Growth Mindset, Drive for Results, Influence for Impact, Judgement, and Diversity & Inclusion