Microsoft Principal Silicon Architect 

Taiwan, Taoyuan City 

354802127

team is currently recruiting awith a passion for delivering high quality SoC experiences.  As a Principal Silicon Architect on our team, you will be responsible to provide detailed requirements, innovate on capabilities and experiences seeking improving SoC power/performance and battery life while enabling unique experiences by working with Windows OS, 1st party applications and SW vendors.  This role requires detailed orientation and affinity to enable efficiencies in process and methodologies from early interaction to our silicon through guiding and engineering organization from experiences to the final product release.   You, in collaboration with the rest of the team, will work with system engineers in specifying the SoC needs delivering high power/performance solutions while balancing feature capability and cost for product category.

Required Qualfications

• Doctorate in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field AND 3+ years technical engineering experience
  • OR Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience
  • OR Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 8+ years ownership of SoC products definition and architecture.
• Knowledge of mobile computing power/performance trade-off, tuning methods and SW components interactions including knowledge on Si process technologies and manufacturing methods.
• Experience managing great levels of ambiguity and minimal direction to extract relevant goals while driving to completion.

Preferred Qualifications

• 10+ years ownership of SoC products definition and architecture.
• Expert knowledge of mobile computing power/performance trade-off, tuning methods and SW components interactions.  This includes knowledge on Si process technologies and manufacturing methods.
• Outstanding interpersonal skills - cross-group and cross-culture collaboration.
• Demonstrated ability to perform in a high paced product development environment.
• Ability to perform in a high paced product development environment.

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Microsoft will accept applications for the role until April 7, 2025.

• Tuning andoptimizingour Silicon Architecture process and methodologies.  Requires understanding the balance for prompt delivery of requirements andmaintainingrigorous follow up with partners and engineering organizations.

• Evaluating and defining SoC goals and architecture that enable devices-experiencesexpectations.
• Staying in tune with the competitivelandscape of the ecosystem, technology trends and roadmaps, existingarchitectureand areas of improvements.

• Architecting and leading the design of the power management sub-system.

• Specifying system-level power management functionality (FW and HW) application processor SoCs .

• Estimating power consumption and silicon area of complex systems .

• Tuning SoC strategy based on knowledge of industry capability and opportunities for IP ownership and tuning methods.