Principal Quantum Design Verification Engineer
Microsoft
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This role pays less than 80% of similar roles. Most pay $162,935–$217,700 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $152k versus about $190k for comparable roles.
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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
Microsoft currently has 694 open roles on FindRole.
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The Quantum Systems Digital Design Engineer II joins the team to design and implement RTL for streaming, low-latency pipelines, including readout classifiers and QEC decoder kernels. You will develop high-speed interconnects using AXI4, JESD204(B/C), Aurora, and PCIe, while managing robust clocking and CDC strategies for deterministic performance. Key responsibilities include co-designing hardware and software boundaries, performing synthesis and timing sign-off, and executing lab bring-up with RF instruments. You will utilize Verilog, SystemVerilog, Tcl, and Python within Vivado, Vitis, or Quartus environments. The role focuses on solving technical challenges in quantum control and readout, specifically accelerating decoders and real-time algorithms. You will also work on heterogeneous co-processing with CPUs and GPUs to support scientific instrumentation and high-speed data processing.
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