Senior Design Verification DevOps Engineer

Company: Microsoft Corporation
Location: Mountain View
Posted on: February 1, 2025

Job Description:

Mountain View, California, United StatesDate posted: Jan 29, 2025Job number: 1802502Work site: Up to 50% work from homeTravel: 0-25 %Role type: Hardware Engineering, Silicon EngineeringEmployment type: Full-TimeOverviewMicrosoft 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 passionate engineers to help achieve that mission.The AI Silicon Engineering (AISiE) SoC Design Verification team is seeking a Senior Design Verification DevOps engineer.The AISiE team is responsible for delivering cutting-edge, custom IP and SoC designs that can perform complex and high-performance AI operations in an extremely efficient manner. Your success in this role will depend on you leveraging your deep understanding of design verification with your DevOps skillset to help deliver the next cutting-edge Microsoft AI accelerator!QualificationsRequired Qualifications:

• 7+ years of related technical engineering experience
  • OR Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience or internship experience
  • OR Master's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 3+ years technical engineering experience or internship experience
  • OR Doctorate degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
  • 6+ years of experience in developing tools and automation in silicon engineering, software tools and infrastructure engineering or a related field.
  • 6+ years Python, Ruby, Shell or similar scripting languages along with strong data structures and algorithms knowledge.
  • 2+ years experience with Azure DevOps and Git.Other:
    • 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 U.S. 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:
      • Familiarity with agile methodologies and tools.
      • Experience in SOC development cycles and methodologies.
      • Experience in ASIC workflow.Responsibilities
        • DV Capabilities: As a Silicon Verification DevOps engineer, you will play a pivotal role in shaping silicon design and verification tools and processes. You will be involved in both pre-silicon design verification and post-silicon bring up, ensuring that our verification flow is robust, scalable, and efficient. You will be working with vendors to solve unique problems faced with large scale SoC designs such as coverage closure, simulation efficiency and profiling. You will blaze the trail for new verification tool implementation and deployment.
        • Verification efficiency and automation: You will use your design verification understanding to develop IP specific tools and scripts that increase efficiency and automation in creating testbench and stimulus. You will identify common functionality across designs and establish common methodology to ensure consistent and accurate design implementation.
        • Collaboration: You will partner closely with Design, DFT and PD to ensure smooth netlist release and bug tracking. You will leverage various tools and processes to maintain accurate and reliable data, and you will utilize your knowledge of databases to manage and analyze data effectively. You will be the essential bridge between the central Infrastructure and SoC DV team and help deploy tool and methodology updates based on their recommendations. You will educate the SoC team on new tools and methodologies available and develop automatic deployment and auditing tools to ensure common practices and guidelines are followed to achieve overall operation efficiency and stability.
        • DV development tracking: You will set up an integrated end-to-end system that provides engineers with specific indicators for SoC development. This system will enable engineers to monitor and analyze key performance metrics, ensuring that our SoC projects meet their targets. Your work will provide the necessary infrastructure to support data-driven decision-making and performance optimization.Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.
          • Industry leading healthcare
          • Educational resources
          • Discounts on products and services
          • Savings and investments
          • Maternity and paternity leave
          • Generous time away
          • Giving programs
          • Opportunities to network and connectMicrosoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.
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