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The Principal SoC Design Engineer joins the Artificial Intelligence System on Chip (AISoC) Silicon team to drive various facets of high performance, high bandwidth AI accelerator designs. In this role, you will perform verification of Intellectual Property microarchitecture specifications, Register Transfer Level design, and System on Chip integration including clocking and resets. You will also manage synthesis and static checks such as Lint and Clock/Reset domain crossings while collaborating with architecture, verification, and physical design teams to ensure implementations meet specifications. The role requires expertise in SoC complexes, ASIC designs, timing constraints, Power, Performance, Area trade-offs, and Post-Silicon Debug. Technical skills include experience with complex algorithmic designs for AI usages and script development. This position focuses on the technical challenges of developing specialized silicon for artificial intelligence applications within a cloud infrastructure environment.
Develop Register Transfer Level (RTL) designs for SoC components.
Manage System on Chip (SOC) integration including clocking and resets.
Perform synthesis and static checks such as Lint and Clock/Reset domain crossings.
Ensure designs are implemented and verified according to technical specifications.
Coordinate with architecture, verification, and physical design teams to meet project goals.
What we're looking for
A Doctorate in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 3+ years of technical engineering experience.
A Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 6+ years of technical engineering experience.
A Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 8+ years of technical engineering experience.
Equivalent professional experience to the degrees listed above.
Ability to pass Microsoft Cloud background checks and meet government security screening requirements.
Ability to provide proof of citizenship or protected status for access to export-controlled information.
10+ years expertise in Verification of SoC complexes (preferred).
8+ years of experience delivering successful IP or ASIC/SOC designs, Lint, Synthesis, PPA trade-offs, and Post-Silicon Debug (preferred).