Microsoft Senior SoC HW Security/Functional Validation Engineer 

Taiwan, Taoyuan City 

609854496

Required Qualifications:

• Doctorate in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 1+ year(s) technical engineering experience
  • OR Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience
  • OR Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 5+ years technical engineering experience
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 3+ years doing SOC security validation or testing
• 5+ years of experience in the role that involves silicon security threat analysis, security audits, secure boot, or trusted execution.

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:

• Proficient communication, collaboration and teamwork skills and ability to lead, grow, and contribute to diverse and inclusive teams.
• Verification, logic development, analog validation, or validation tools experience as part of a CPU, SoC and/or IP development team.
• Leadership skills.
• Technical focused skills: threat modeling, security audits, secure boot, root of trust, or trusted execution technologies knowledge.
• Ability to develop synthetic SoC validation content for Core, Coherency, Memory, and IO to run on both bare metal and OS environments.
• Ability to develop sophisticated tools/scripts to support SoC validation debug and error handling.
• 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 oscilloscopes, protocol analyzers, logic analyzers).

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 October 23, 2025.

The Silicon computing development team is seeking passionate, driven and intellectually curious engineers to join the post-silicon validation (including functional, electrical, and power/performance aspects) team for our projects. This new team will be involved in numerous projects within Microsoft developing custom silicon for a diverse set of systems. We are responsible for delivering cutting-edge, custom SoC designs that can perform complex and high-performance functions in the most efficient manner. As a technical individual contributor in this high impact role on the team, you will:

• Own post-silicon validation of one of the following areas: Security and cross SoC functional interfaces.
• Define, guide, and contribute to the implementation of silicon debug tools and capabilities.
• Become an expert on the overall architecture, implementation of SoC security requirements 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 and security 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, debug and assess security impact of 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 security, to validation plans/collateral, and methodology to prevent, reduce, and/or find bugs sooner, more easily, or more reliably.
• Apply your One Microsoft value and security first mentality to collaborate with and influence architects, logic designers, verification engineers, other post-silicon validators, and IP and tool providers.
• Delight your customers by providing high quality results on schedule.
• Provide technical leadership with respect and integrity.
• Apply your expertise towards pre-silicon verification plans, tests, and debug of your area.