The Senior SoC HW (Analog/Functional) Validation Engineer will join the Compute Silicon & Manufacturing Engineering organization within Microsoft Silicon, Cloud Hardware, and Infrastructure Engineering. This team is responsible for the design, development, and validation of custom silicon for Microsoft's cloud infrastructure. The role focuses on post-silicon validation, ensuring high-quality performance and efficiency in hardware manufacturing. The engineer will work on various projects, contributing to the development of cutting-edge SoC designs.

• 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.
• Understanding of SoC power delivery, subsystem, SoC system level, and platform level functionality.
• Proficient communication, collaboration and teamwork skills.
• Demonstrated validation expertise in one or more areas such as electrical validation, power and performance, or automation.

• Own post-silicon validation of PLL, IO electrical/analog or functional IO interfaces.
• Define, guide, and contribute to the implementation of silicon debug tools and capabilities.
• Become an expert on the overall architecture and implementation of high speed IO interfaces.
• Provide technical guidance, coaching, and mentorship to other engineers.
• Develop validation strategy, requirements, environments, tools, and methodologies.
• 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.
• Engage with partners to drive continuous improvement to the design and validation plans.
• Collaborate with architects, logic designers, verification engineers, and other stakeholders.
• Provide high quality results on schedule.

• Employees at Microsoft are often offered comprehensive, “world-class” benefits—including health and mental-wellness programs, competitive pay with bonuses and stock awards, and retirement/savings options. Time-off and flexibility are common, with generous vacation and holidays, parental and caregiver leave, and flexible work schedules, alongside learning support, employee resource groups, product discounts, and matching-gifts/volunteering programs. Specific benefits can vary by region.