Microsoft Senior Hardware Engineer 

Taiwan, Taoyuan City 

984074659

As a Senior Hardware Engineer on the Accelnet hardware team, you will be responsible for building, testing, and deploying networking acceleration on Azure -- the largest deployment of FPGA SmartNICs in the world. You will develop the infrastructure for next-generation Software-Defined Networking (SDN), including arbitrary packet manipulations, reducing virtualization overhead, and improving connection setup performance for general and custom networking protocols. You should be able to drive projects with both hardware and software teams, and both inside and outside of Microsoft.

This is a unique opportunity for hardware developers to see their Register Transfer Level (RTL) code go to production within weeks instead of years, or for software developers to tap into the performance and efficiency of customized hardware. Come help build one of the few truly hyperscale global clouds, with innovations possible at every level of the computing stack.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 5+ years technical experience in digital logic design, development, and verification experience
  • OR Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 3+ years technical engineering experience
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of experience in digital design, verification, or hardware development

• 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.

• Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience
  • OR Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience
  • OR Doctorate Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 3+ years technical engineering experience
    OR equivalent experience.
    
• 2+ years of experience in digital logic design and verification using Verilog, SystemVerilog, or VHDL, with deep knowledge of FPGA programming including timing closure, resource management, and IP library usage.
• 1+ year(s) of experience developing and deploying cloud applications for hardware such as NICs and GPUs, and working with networking fundamentals including RDMA, SR-IOV, TCP, UDP, and IP.
• 1+ year(s) of experience reading and writing code in languages such as C, C++, C#, SystemC, PowerShell, and/or Python, with a strong understanding of hardware verification methodologies.
  

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 16, 2025.

• Design, propose and oversee the analysis/evaluation of hardware architectures
• Design and code RTL modules written in Verilog / SystemVerilog and targeting FPGAs
• Simulate and perform hardware-based testing, debug, and verification of FPGA designs
• Scripting and basic software development in support of hardware design
• Apply Agile development methodologies including code reviews, sprint planning, and frequent deployment
• Handle a DevOps role with occasional on-call responsibilities for resolving customer issues in production