SoC Hardware Validation Engineer
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Oregon, Hillsboro | |
 Sep 27, 2024 | |
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OverviewMicrosoft Silicon, Cloud Hardware, and Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE) is the team behind Microsoft's expanding Cloud Infrastructure and responsible for powering Microsoft's "Intelligent Cloud" mission. SCHIE delivers the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's over 200 online businesses including Bing, MSN, Office 365, Xbox Live, Teams, OneDrive, and the Microsoft Azure platform globally with our server and data center infrastructure, security and compliance, operations, globalization, and manageability solutions. Our focus is on smart growth, high efficiency, and delivering a trusted experience to customers and partners worldwide and we are looking for engineers to help achieve that mission.As Microsoft's cloud business continues to grow the ability to deploy new offerings and hardware infrastructure on time, in high volume with high quality and lowest cost is of paramount importance. To achieve this goal, the Hardware, Infrastructure Management, and Fundamentals Engineering (HIFE) team is instrumental in defining and delivering operational measures of success for hardware manufacturing, improving the planning process, quality, delivery, scale and sustainability related to Microsoft cloud hardware. We are looking for engineers with a dedicated passion for customer focused solutions, insight and industry knowledge to envision and implement future technical solutions that will manage and optimize the Cloud infrastructure. We are looking for a SoC Hardware Validation Engineer to join the team. Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
ResponsibilitiesThe Silicon computing development team is seeking 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 - functional, electrical, or power/performance.* Define, guide, and contribute to the implementation of silicon debug tools and capabilities.* Become extremely knowledgeable on the overall architecture, implementation of complex features/flows/protocols, 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 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 and debug 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 validation plans/collateral, and methodology to prevent, reduce, and/or find bugs sooner, more easily, or more reliably.* Apply your One Microsoft mentality to collaborate with and influence architects, logic designers, verification engineers, other post-silicon validators, and IP and tool providers.* Provide technical leadership with respect and integrity.* Apply your knowledge towards pre-silicon verification plans, tests, and debug of your area. Embody our Culture and Values | |