Senior SoC HW (Functional) Validation Engineer Job at Microsoft Corporation (Hillsboro)

Senior SoC HW (Functional) Validation Engineer

Microsoft Corporation

Location:
United States , Hillsboro

Category:
IT - Software Development

Contract Type:
Not provided

Salary:

119800.00 - 234700.00 USD / Year

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Job Description:

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 a Senior SoC HW (Functional) Validation Engineer to help achieve that mission.

Job Responsibility:

Own post-silicon validation of one of the following areas – functional validation of cache Coherency/mesh/fabric
Define, guide, and contribute to the implementation of silicon debug tools and capabilities
Become an expert on the overall architecture, implementation of complex features/flows/protocols, and their interactions with other parts of the SoC, with the platform, and with software
Provide technical guidance, coaching, and mentorship to other engineers in your areas of expertise
Develop validation strategy, requirements, environments, tools, and methodologies including debug board and hardware/software requirements
Apply your knowledge of validation principles and techniques and your judgement to write test plans and implement them by developing test content, scripts, tools and other validation collateral
Execute content in post-silicon, triage and debug failures
Apply your growth mindset to learn and adapt in a complex and dynamic environment
Engage with partners to drive continuous improvement to the design, to validation plans/collateral, and methodology to prevent, reduce, and/or find bugs sooner, more easily, or more reliably
Apply your One Microsoft mentality to collaborate with and influence architects, logic designers, verification engineers, other post-silicon validators, and IP and tool providers
Delight your customers by providing high quality results on schedule
Provide technical leadership with respect and integrity
Apply your experience towards pre-silicon verification plans, tests, and debug of your area

Requirements:

Doctorate in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 1+ year(s) technical engineering experience OR Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience OR Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 5+ years technical engineering experience OR equivalent experience
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role
Applied understanding of Computer Architecture and CPU/SoC validation principles, including: Understanding of SoC subsystem, SoC system level, and platform level functionality and writing scripts/software with industry standard languages like Python or C/C++
At least 5+ years of experience
Proficient communication, collaboration and teamwork skills and ability to lead, grow, and contribute to diverse and inclusive teams
Verification, logic development, validation, or validation tools experience as part of a CPU, SoC and/or IP development team
Leadership skills
Demonstrated validation expertise in one or more of the following: Functional: Core, cache Coherency/mesh/fabric, PCIe/ IO, Memory Controller, Power Management
Power and Performance
Automation, Content Creation, or Tools/Scripts Development
Ability to develop synthetic SoC validation Core, Coherency, Memory, and IO content to run on both bare metal and OS environments
Ability to develop sophisticated tools/scripts to support SoC validation debug activities such as crash dumps and register dumps
Understanding system level software and firmware
Experience running silicon content on pre-silicon platforms such as emulation or FPGA
Demonstrated success in hardware/software debug efforts
Hands on experience debugging silicon failures using on chip debug features (like trace or JTAG) as well as test equipment (like protocol analyzers, bit error rate testers, logic analyzers, oscilloscopes)

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
January 16, 2026

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

Hybrid work

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Senior SoC HW (Functional) Validation Engineer

Microsoft Corporation

Location:
United States , Hillsboro

Category:
IT - Software Development

Contract Type:
Not provided

Salary:

Job Description:

Job Responsibility:

Requirements:

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
January 16, 2026

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