Microsoft Looking For Design Verification Engineer at Mountain View, CA Full Time

Microsoft is a highly innovative company that collaborates across disciplines to produce cutting edge technology that changes our world. The Silicon IP Architecture and Verification team is seeking passionate, driven, and intellectually curious silicon verification engineer who can work with cross-discipline teams (systems, firmware, architecture, design, validation, product engineering, …) to develop environment and test cases to verify SOC designs. The ideal candidate is also passionate about developing systematic and efficient methods to detect hardware/software vulnerabilities.

Our team is involved in numerous projects within Microsoft developing custom silicon for a diverse set of systems ranging from innovative high-performance consumer products like Xbox to Azure cloud servers, clients, and IoT SOCs.

Responsibilities

Creation of verification environments and tests, pre-silicon functional verification at the block and sub-system level, reference modeling and emulation.

Qualifications

Requirements:
Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or similar degree

3+ years of experience in developing test plans, creating simulation environments, developing tests, and debugging for multiple IPs, SoCs or systems.

Proficient in Verilog or VHDL, C/C++, and scripting languages such as Python, Ruby or Perl.

In depth knowledge of verification principles, testbenches, stimulus generation.

Substantial background in creating simulation environments, developing tests, and debugging designs

Solid understanding of chip and/or computer architecture

Prior experience in the following would also be valuable:
Experience with secure hardware design for embedded systems

Experience with hardware emulation or FPGAs

Experience in RTL design for FPGA or emulation

Experience in Assembly, start up code and linker scripts

Experience in developing makefiles for software development

Excellent communication skills

Energetic and self-motivated

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

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