Senior Intellectual Property Verification Engineer

Overview
The Silicon Computing Development Organization is seeking an engineer to join our pre-silicon hardware verification team. We are responsible for delivering cutting-edge, custom System-on-Chip (SOC ) designs that can perform complex and high-performance functions in the most efficient manner.
We are seeking a Senior Intellectual Property Engineer to join our team!
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Responsibilities
In this high-impact role on the team, you will have the opportunity to:

• Own verification of one or more aspects/features of a custom IIntellectual Property (IP)/block or IP subsystem integration.
• Learn about the design and interact with partner teams to define verification strategies and test plans.
• Develop verification environments and run and debug simulations to drive quality.
• Apply random-stimulus and coverage-based techniques to find bugs and meet test plan goals.
• Innovate to improve verification efficiency through methodologies or tools.
• Coach and mentor others in your areas of expertise.
• Demonstrate Microsoft core values: Customer Focus, Adaptability, Collaboration, Growth Mindset, Drive for Results, Influence for Impact, Judgement, and Diversity & Inclusion.

Qualifications
Required Qualifications:

• 7+ years of related technical engineering experience

o OR Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience or internship experience
o OR Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 3+ years technical engineering experience or internship experience
o OR Doctorate degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.

• 5+ years of pre-silicon IP/block or sub-system verification experience.
• 5+ years of experience creating, maintaining, or integrating test benches, checkers and stimulus using System Verilog Test Bench (SVTB), Universal Verification Methodology (UVM) and/or C.

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:

• Demonstrated expertise in one or more of the following: fabrics, power management, DDR controllers, coherency, virtualization, interrupts, security, PCIe, CXL, USB, protocol bridges or other complex IP/blocks or subsystems.
• Experience with IP verification for a full product cycle from definition to silicon, including writing IP/block or subsystem level test plans, developing tests, debugging failures and coverage signoff.
• Experience in Analog or Mixed signal verification.
• Aptitude for writing scripts/software with industry standard languages like Python.

Silicon Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $112,000 - $218,400 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $145,800 - $238,600 per year.
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
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