Microsoft SoC Hardware Validation Engineer 

United States, Oregon, Hillsboro 

953673451

Required Qualifications:

· 5+ years of related technical engineering experience

• OR Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 2+ years technical engineering experience or internship experience
• OR Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 1+ year(s) 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.

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:

Preferred Qualifications:

• Applied understanding of Computer Architecture and CPU/SoC validation principles, including: Understanding of SoC subsystem, SoC system level, and platform level functionality and writing scripts/software with industry standard languages like Python or C/C++.

Additional Preferred Requirements:
• Proficient communication, collaboration and teamwork skills and ability to lead, grow, and contribute to diverse and inclusive teams.
• Verification, logic development, validation, or validation tools experience as part of a CPU, SoC and/or IP development team.
• Ability to develop and build kernels and modify existing commercial OS images adding SoC validation debug hooks, drivers, and various capabilities into them.
• Ability to develop synthetic SoC validation Core, Coherency, Memory, and IO content to run on both bare metal and OS environments.
• Ability to develop sophisticated tools/scripts to support SoC validation debug activities such as crash dumps and register dumps.
• Understanding of board level schematics.
• Understanding system level software and firmware.
• Experience running silicon content on pre-silicon platforms such as emulation or FPGA.
• Demonstrated success in hardware/software debug efforts.
• Hands on expertise debugging silicon failures using on chip debug features (like trace or JTAG) as well as test equipment (like protocol analyzers, bit error rate testers, logic analyzers, oscilloscopes)

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 8, 2024.

• Own post-silicon validation of one of the following areas - functional, electrical, or power/performance.
• Define, guide, and contribute to the implementation of silicon debug tools and capabilities.
• Become extremely knowledgeable on the overall architecture, implementation of complex features/flows/protocols, and their interactions with other parts of the SoC, with the platform, and with software.
• Provide technical guidance, coaching, and mentorship to other engineers in your areas of expertise.
• Develop validation strategy, requirements, environments, tools, and methodologies including debug board and hardware/software requirements.
• Apply your knowledge of validation principles and techniques and your judgement to 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.
• 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 IP and tool providers.
• Provide technical leadership with respect and integrity.
• Apply your knowledge towards pre-silicon verification plans, tests, and debug of your area.

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