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Posted date: Sep 24, 2025
There have been 2 jobs posted with the title of Principal Silicon Engineer all time at Microsoft.Category: Hardware Engineering
Location: Raleigh, North Carolina
Estimated salary: $222,050
Range: $139,900 - $304,200
Employment type: Full-Time
Travel amount: 25.0%
Work location type: 3 days / week in-office
Role: Individual Contributor
Description
The Compute Silicon & Manufacturing Engineering (CSME) organization within SCHIE is responsible for design, development, manufacturing and packaging of Microsoft's state of the art custom computer chips, notably the Azure Cobalt. Our solutions provide sustainable strategic advantage to Microsoft and enable our customers to achieve more.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 seasoned 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 Principal Silicon Engineer to join the team.
Lead an SoC verification team, owning verification of SOC and integration of it’s components and/or SoC level flowsBecome knowledgeable on the overall SoC architecture, implementation of complex features/flows/protocols, and their interactions with other parts of the SoC, with the platform, and with software.Drive verification strategy, test plans, requirements, environments, tools, and methodologies.Apply your knowledge of verification principles and techniques and your judgement to write test plans and implement them by developing tests, test generators, test benches, checkers, coverage, and other verification collateral.Run tests, debug failures to root cause, and recommend fixes.Apply your growth mindset to learn and adapt in a complex and dynamic environment.Engage with partners to drive continuous improvement to both the design, to verification plans/collateral, and to methodology to prevent, reduce, and/or find bugs sooner, more easily, or more reliably.Mentor and coach team membersApply 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.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:Doctorate in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 3+ years technical engineering experience OR Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience OR Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience OR equivalent experience.7+ years of experience working on Computer Architecture and SoC design and verification principles, including using industry standard HDLs like System Verilog.7+ years of experience developing and using verification environments in industry standard languages like SVTB UVM or formal verification.
Other Requirments:
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.
Preferred Qualifications:
2+ years of pre-silicon verification technical leadership, including leading a team, technical scoping, and project planning.Substantial background in architecting and developing SV/UVM testbenches.Experience developing test plans, managing regressions, and triaging failures.Experience reviewing and reacting to architecture definitions and changes.Experience analyzing and closing code and functional coverage.Experience developing C/C++ test cases.In depth knowledge of full chip and system level flows and protocols.Demonstrated expertise in one or more of the following:DFD, JTAG, and debug protocolsMemory Controller/PHY IPs, DDR protocols, and related firmware/BIOS/MRCCPU cores, protocols, and related firmwareCoherent and non-coherent fabric IPs and protocolsPCIe Controller/PHY IPs, protocols and related firmwareManageability IPs, protocols, and related firmwareSecurity IPs, firmware, SoC level features/flows, OS/software interactions.Collaboration and teamwork skills and ability to contribute to diverse and inclusive teams.
Silicon Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $139,900 - $274,800 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 $188,000 - $304,200 per year.
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: US corporate pay information | Microsoft Careers
Microsoft will accept applications for the role until Oct 8th 2025.
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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