Silicon Engineer II
Overview 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 passionate 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 Microsoft’s Compute Silicon & Manufacturing Engineering 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. Responsibilities In this role, you will be responsible to: Own execution from synthesis to place and route of partition through all signoff including timing signoff, physical verification, EMIR signoff, Formal Equivalence, and Low Power Verification.
Own partition floor planning for optimizing blocks for Power, Performance and Area. Additionally flow flush PD TFM on few design partitions for early identification of any design PD flow issues before every PD TFM release is proliferated and deployed across all partitions/subchips for PD execution.
Partner closely with PD flow/CAD team and PD methodology team to flag & fix PD TFM issues upfront and ensure those are fixed in the next PD TFM release from CAD or are updated in the design project layer (as appropriate). Have close collaboration with RTL team to help drive and resolve design issues related to block closure.
Understand tools, flows, and overall design methodology in design construction, signoff, and optimization with a data driven approach. Have good scripting skills in one or more scripting languages (viz., Tcl, Perl). Expertise in Python will be a big plus.
Be a disciplined executor and have keen interest in learning and be forthcoming to deliver to requirements of the program, learn from the team members Qualifications BS/BE/BTech/MS/ME/MTech in Electronics or Microelectronics/VLSI, or Electrical Engineering Min 6+ years of experience in semiconductor design.
Good communication, collaboration and teamwork skills and ability to contribute to diverse and inclusive teams. Proven track record of implementing designs through synthesis, floorplanning, place and route, extraction, timing, and physical verification
Preferred
- Large SoC/CPU/IP design tape-out experience in the latest foundry process nodes.
- Project management skills and ability to juggle multiple projects at once.
- Good understanding of constraints generation, STA, timing optimization, and timing closure.
- In-depth understanding of design tradeoffs for power, performance, and area.
- Hands on experience with CTS techniques such as Htree, custom clock tree, Experience of implementing (VA Planning, secondar PG planning) in multi-voltage, multi-powerdomain, and low power designs.
- Experience and knowledge of formal equivalency checks, LEC, LP, UPF, reliability, SI, and Noise.
- Experience in EDA tools such as Fusion Compiler, Primetime, StarRC, RedHawk, Formality, etc.
- Exposure and some hands-on experience with PD flows bring up/setup/flow flush, overall know how of PD-TFM and PD methodology is a big plus Problem-solving and data analysis skills Automation skills using scripting languages such as Perl, TCL, or Python.
- 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.
- This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
- Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer.
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