Microsoft Looking For Principal HW IO Virtualization Architect at Hillsboro, OR Full Time

Microsoft’s hardware teams incubate advanced technologies and build deep partnerships with internal research, product planning, business, and marketing teams. Microsoft ships tens of millions of hardware products every year, including the Xbox, Surface devices, HoloLens, accessories, and much more. Our opportunities represent a variety of disciplines including, but not limited to, design, verification, performance modeling, and DevOps supporting the development of custom silicon. Microsoft’s hardware teams are also expanding into new technologies such as quantum computing! We are looking for candidates to bring their authentic selves as we build/design the future.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities:
As a Principal HW IO Virtualization Architect in the Silicon Engineering and Solutions team, you will drive the HW virtualization architecture for the product and be at the center of chip design and enabling effort all the way from defining architecture, helping with implementation, ensuring verification coverage and finally with silicon bring-up and validation, 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. In this high impact & highly visible role on the team, you will be responsible for:

Leading the architecture definition of HW components to enable HW virtualization of IO devices

Defining IP targets for performance, power, security, speeds, and feeds across multiple products

Continue to assess and then refine the architecture to optimize for product goals, while taking area, power, and performance into consideration. Challenge the status quo with a growth mindset.

Collaboration across HW, FW and SW teams to optimize full stack solution.

Author the architectural specification to represent the vision of the product for key consuming partner architects, as well as FW, design, and verification engineers.

Mentor and assist junior level engineers to learn and grow.

Qualifications

Requirements:
BS, MS, or Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, or Computer Engineering or equivalent experience with 8+ years of experience in the field of architecture.

Ability to work with multiple teams with proven collaboration, communication, and leadership.

Additional Preferred Requirements:
Computer system and silicon architecture knowledge in areas such as I/O device and accelerator architecture, performance, quality of service, power management, security, interconnects, microprocessors, and memory systems.

Extensive experience in virtualization, including understanding of memory management of the Hypervisor and Guest OS

Understanding of PCIe device programming models and features like PCIe ATS and PRI

Understanding of SOC Interrupt architecture

Understanding of Security threat models and architecting secured access paths

Understanding of industry standard coherent and non-coherent protocols

Detailed understanding of Performance and Power Architecture and Modeling

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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