Microsoft Principal Silicon Architect 

United States, California, Mountain View 

378362248

Semi-Custom and Central IP Siliconin developing semicustom silicon and logical acceleration and analog IPand industry knowledge to envision and implement future technical solutions that will manage andthe Cloud infrastructure.

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• 9+ years of related technical engineering experience

• ORBachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience or internship experience
• ORMaster'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.

• 8+ years ofcomputerarchitecture, design and/or modeling experience.
• 3+years of experiencein one or more of the following fields,LosslessData compression algorithms(such asZ standardor industry related) ornonvolatile memory express (NVMe)and storage technologyorDevice Virtualization (single root I/O virtualization (SRIOV)or Scalable IO Virtualization (SIOV))

Other Requirements

• Abilityto meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirementsarerequired 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.

or Preferred Qualifications

• Modelling Experience

• 3+ years of experienceindevelopingfunctional / performancecycle or bit-accurate C/C++ models

• Knowledge inone or more of the following areasisa plus

• standard interfaces such as AMBA AXI, PCIe, CXL, and DDR/LPDDR is preferred
• Confidential compute and security needs
• QoS mechanisms
• Accelerator Use Cases that are tightly coupled with compute cores – Crypto, Compression, Packet Parsing, Filtering

• Experience designing and architecting complicated IPs and SoCs.

• Effective communication skills to influence Azure business and engineering 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 May 6, 2024.

• You will be on the leading edge of computing, building lasting relationships with various cross-functional groups to develop high-performance and innovativeSystem on Chip (SoC) SiliconandIntellectual Property (IP). You are expected to work with limited direction,haveattention to detail and be able to provide crisp status of progress, issues, and risks on the program to the management team.
• Be part of an architectureteam leading the definitionofnext generationSoCandaccelerationIPblocksby
  • Incubatingvertically integrated solutionswith customer hardware and software teams
  • Drivingevaluationsand providingrecommendations fortechnology thruindustryknowledge andpower, area, and performance metrics
  • Authoringarchitecture specification of SoC and acceleration IPblocksolutions
  • Workingwith System and SoC architects on functional and performance requirements anddeveloping architecturalmodelsfor analysis,trade-off studies, and guiding implementation
• Willbe responsible forengagingwith internaland externalpartnersforbest in classdevelopment
• Supportimplementation teamsin pre and post silicon to ensure features and performance meet the architectural requirements
• Be part of asystemintegrated team byensuring