Senior Principal Verification Engineer

Microsoft 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.

The Compute Silicon & Manufacturing Engineering (CSME) organization within SCHIE is responsible for design, development, manufacturing and packaging of Microsoft's state-of-the-art computer chips, notably the Azure Cobalt. Our solutions provide sustainable strategic advantages to Microsoft and enable our customers to achieve more.

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 Compute Silicon and Manufacturing Engineering (CSME) 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 experienced 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 Senior Principal Verification Engineer to join the team to support our mission and culture.

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• Define and drive the SoC verification architecture, strategy, and methodology for complex multi-IP and multi-subsystem designs.
• Develop comprehensive verification plans based on architecture, specifications, use cases, and potential system-level failure scenarios.
• Lead verification of critical SoC functionality including interconnect, coherency, memory, I/O, security, power management, reset, debug, and system-level flows.
• Drive development of scalable environments, stimulus, checkers, scoreboards, assertions, functional coverage, and verification infrastructure.
• Identify verification gaps, architectural corner cases, and cross-IP interactions that may not be adequately covered by block- or subsystem-level verification.
• Partner closely with architecture, RTL design, firmware, performance, emulation, validation, and IP verification teams to ensure end-to-end verification coverage.
• Lead verification of system-level scenarios, concurrency, stress conditions, error handling, recovery, and complex interactions across multiple subsystems.
• Influence verification methodology and infrastructure improvements that increase coverage, productivity, scalability, debug efficiency, and quality.
• Identify verification risks early and drive mitigation plans to protect program quality and schedule.
• Participate in architecture, design, test-plan, coverage, and verification readiness reviews.
• Serve as a senior technical authority for SoC DV and help establish verification of best practices and technical direction across projects.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to verification engineers across the organization.
• Apply your One Microsoft mentality to collaborate with and influence architects, logic designers, post-silicon validators, other verification engineers, and IP and tool providers.
• Embody our culture and values.

Required Qualifications:

• Doctorate in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 7+ years technical engineering experience
  • OR Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 10+ years technical engineering experience
  • OR Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 12+ years technical engineering experience
  • OR equivalent experience. 

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.
• This role will require access to information that is controlled for export under export control regulations, potentially under the U.S. International Traffic in Arms Regulations or Export Administration Regulations, the EU Dual Use Regulation, and/or other export control regulations.  As a condition of employment, the successful candidate will be required to provide either proof of their country of citizenship or proof of their US. residency or other protected status (e.g., under 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)) for assessment of eligibility to access the export-controlled information. To meet this legal requirement, and as a condition of employment, the successful candidate’s citizenship will be verified with a valid passport. Lawful permanent residents, refugees, and asylees may verify status using other documents, where applicable

Preferred Qualifications:

• BS/MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science or related degree.
• Minimum of 8+ years acting in a technical lead capacity managing complex cross-functional or cross-geographic silicon verification projects
• 10+ years of experience of functional verification in complex CPU, SoC, or IP development environments.
• Demonstrated technical depth in one or more of the following:
• ARM/CPU architecture
• Memory subsystem architecture, memory controllers/PHYs, and DDR protocols
• Coherent/non-coherent fabrics and protocols
• PCIe/CXL controllers, PHYs, and protocols
• IOMMU/SMMU, address translation, and virtualization
• Experienced SystemVerilog/UVM skills and working knowledge of C/C++ and scripting languages.
• Demonstrated ability to drive complex technical problems across architecture, design, firmware, performance, and verification teams.
• Experienced communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to provide technical leadership and contribute effectively across diverse, cross-functional teams.

Silicon Engineering IC6 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $165,600 - $296,400 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 $220,800 - $331,200 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

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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