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The Senior SoC HW (Power & Performance) Validation Engineer joins the Compute Silicon & Manufacturing Engineering organization within Microsoft Silicon, Cloud Hardware, and Infrastructure Engineering. This role focuses on the design, development, and manufacturing of state-of-the-art computer chips like Azure Cobalt. You will own the post-silicon power and performance validation strategy, executing characterization across performance, power, thermal, functional, and electrical domains. Key responsibilities include defining methodologies for DVFS and power states, developing validation plans for compute, memory, and interconnects, and creating automation tools or scripts. You will use Python or C/C++ to build synthetic validation content for bare metal and OS environments. The work involves identifying performance bottlenecks and power inefficiencies to optimize cloud infrastructure hardware for high-volume, high-quality production.
Analyze performance, power, and thermal data to identify bottlenecks and drive root cause resolutions.
Develop validation environments, automation scripts, benchmarks, and tools for efficient characterization and debug.
Execute post-silicon validation to triage complex cross-layer issues across silicon, firmware, OS, and platform layers.
Drive performance-per-watt and system-level optimizations to improve product competitiveness.
Provide technical leadership and mentorship in silicon debug, power management, and validation methodology.
What we're looking for
Must have a Doctorate and 1+ years of experience, a Master's and 4+ years of experience, or a Bachelor's and 5+ years of experience in a related engineering field.
Must be able to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check.
Must provide proof of citizenship, US residency, or other protected status to access export-controlled information.
Must be able to work with information controlled under U.S. ITAR, EAR, or EU Dual Use regulations.
Understanding of SoC system level and platform level functionality, defining silicon validation requirements, and writing scripts in Python or C/C++ (preferred).
Experience in verification, logic development, analog validation, or validation tools for CPU, SoC, and/or IP development (preferred).
Demonstrated validation expertise in power validation, performance testing, tuning, automation, or tools/scripts development (preferred).
Experience running silicon content on pre-silicon platforms such as emulation or FPGA (preferred).
SoC
Power Management
Post-Silicon Validation
DVFS
Thermal Management
Root-Cause Analysis
Firmware
System Software
Silicon Bring-up
FPGA
Emulation
Bare Metal
Telemetry
Logic Development
Analog Validation