Microsoft is a highly innovative company that collaborates across disciplines to produce cutting edge technology that changes our world.  The Silicon Architecture and Verification team is seeking passionate, driven, and intellectually curious silicon verification engineer who can work with cross-discipline teams (systems, firmware, architecture, design, validation, product engineering, ...) to develop environment and test cases to verify hardware security designs.  The ideal candidate is also passionate in developing systematic and efficient methods to detecting hardware/software vulnerabilities.  

Our team is involved in numerous projects within Microsoft developing custom silicon for a diverse set of systems ranging from innovative high-performance consumer products to Azure and  Sphere IoT. 

Responsibilities

Creation of verification environments and tests, pre-silicon functional verification at the block, chip and system level, reference modeling and post-silicon validation. 

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in design verification with a proven track record of full verification cycle on complex SoC IPs and/or systems.
• In depth knowledge of verification principles, testbenches, stimulus generation
• Substantial background in creating simulation environments, developing tests, and debugging designs
• Solid understanding of chip and/or computer architecture
• Scripting language such as Python, Ruby, or Perl
• Experience writing tests in C and C++

Preferred Qualifications (Ideally two of the areas below)

• Hardware security IP and SOC level verification
• Experience with secure hardware design for embedded systems
• Firmware development experience, with secure and non-secure boot flow
• Experience with hardware emulation or FPGAs
• Experience in RTL design for FPGA or emulation
• Experience in Assembly, start up code and linker scripts
• Experience in developing makefiles for software development
• Excellent communication skills
• Energetic and self-motivated

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.  We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

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