Principal Design Verification Engineer

Microsoft

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$142,800–$274,800 / yr
Posted
10 days ago
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Confirmed live yesterday
Closes
Apr 18, 2027

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Microsoft Corporation is a global technology leader producing software, hardware, and cloud services including Windows, Office 365, Azure cloud platform, Xbox gaming, and Surface devices. Industry: Software & Cloud Computing

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TL;DR · Principal Design Verification Engineer

The Principal Design Verification Engineer joins the Artificial Intelligence System on Chip team within Microsoft Silicon, Cloud Hardware, and Infrastructure Engineering. In this role, you will technically lead a pre-silicon verification team to develop custom IP components and System on Chip designs for high-performance cloud hardware. Your daily responsibilities include creating testplans, writing and debugging constrained random stimulus, scoreboards, and assertions, and developing Universal Verification Methodology components. You will also define functional coverage, triage emulation fails, and write makefiles or scripts for verification infrastructure. The position requires expertise in C++, UVM, Python, Perl, and Formal property verification. You will solve complex hardware manufacturing and quality problems by ensuring the correctness of architectural and micro-architectural functions for AI and Machine Learning SoCs.

What does a Design Verification Engineer earn?

Median $191650 from 84 postings across 9 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Lead a pre-silicon verification team for the development of custom IP components.
  • Create testplans covering verification strategy, test requirements, and test environments for IP verification.
  • Write, execute, and debug constrained random stimulus, scoreboards, checkers, and assertions.
  • Develop Universal Verification Methodology (UVM) components to interface test code with simulation environments.
  • Define and implement functional coverage to drive coverage closure.
  • Triage and debug testbench, simulation, and emulation failures.
  • Write makefiles and scripts for verification infrastructure.

What we're looking for

  • Obtain a Doctorate with 3+ years of experience, a Master's with 6+ years, or a Bachelor's with 8+ years in a relevant engineering field.
  • Ability to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check.
  • Must provide proof of U.S. citizenship, permanent residency, or other protected status for export control eligibility.
  • 12+ years of experience in design verification (preferred).
  • Experience with verification for multiple product cycles from definition to Silicon using C++ and UVM (preferred).
  • Experience debugging RTL designs as well as simulation and/or emulation environments (preferred).
  • 5+ years of experience in lead roles across cross-functional and cross-time-zone engineering teams (preferred).
  • Verification lead experience for IP or SS related to CPUs, VPUs, GPUs, DMA, Tensor units, or similar (preferred).

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