Principal Formal Design 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 Verification & Validation 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 Principal Formal Design Verification Engineer to join the team to support our mission and culture. This key role will impact the organization by driving formal verification strategy and execution for complex IP/SOC designs.

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The candidate for this position will be expected and able to complete the following responsibilities:

• Own or lead Formal verification of Fabric Interconnect architectures, IPs, subsystems, and reusable Fabric components from planning through signoff.
• Partner with architecture, design, and verification teams to define Formal verification strategies, methodologies, test plans, and signoff criteria.
• Develop and enhance Formal verification environments, assertions, abstraction models, checkers, and reusable verification collateral, while driving convergence an execution to closure
• Drive root-cause analysis and closure of complex design and verification issues through Formal analysis, simulation, and debug.
• Improve verification productivity through automation, methodologies, and AI-assisted solutions.
• Coach and mentor engineers in Formal verification methodologies, debug techniques and best practices.
• Demonstrate Microsoft core values: Customer Focus, Adaptability, Collaboration, Growth Mindset, Drive for Results, Influence for Impact, Judgement, and Diversity & Inclusion.

Required Qualifications:

• 12+ years of relevant technical engineering experience
• Candidate must have at least a bachelor’s or master’s degree in electrical, Electronics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science or a related degree    
• 5+ years of hands-on pre-silicon Formal verification experience at the IP, subsystem, or SoC level.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Demonstrated expertise applying Formal verification methodologies to complex IPs, subsystems, SoCs, or reusable library components.
• Deep technical expertise in one or more of the following: Fabric Interconnects, coherency, CHI, AMBA, PCIe, CXL, protocol bridges, virtualization, security, or memory subsystems.
• Experience driving verification from planning through signoff across multiple product cycles.
• Experience developing scalable Formal verification environments, assertions, assumptions, checkers, and reusable verification collateral.
• Experience solving complex cross-team technical challenges and driving verification closure.
• Working knowledge of simulation-based verification methodologies, including System Verilog, UVM, assertions, and coverage-driven verification.
• Proficiency with Python or similar scripting languages for automation and verification productivity.
• Experience applying AI-assisted tools to engineering and verification workflows

Screening 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.

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. 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 with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.