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Principal Silicon Design Verification Engineer

Microsoft · Santa Clara, CA, US · Mountain View, CA, US · Hillsboro, OR, US · Austin, TX, US · Redmond, WA, US

Spotted 119d ago

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Pay
$142,800 – $274,800 a year
Level
Staff / principal
Experience
3+ years
Education
Bachelor's degree
Posted
Jul 1, 2026
Last confirmed open
Oct 28, 2026

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About this role

Overview Microsoft Silicon, Cloud Hardware, and Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE) is the team behind Microsoft’s expanding Cloud Infrastructure and responsible for powering Microsoft’s “Intelligent Cloud” mission.

SCHIE delivers the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's over 200 online businesses including Bing, MSN, Office 365, Xbox Live, Teams, OneDrive, and the Microsoft Azure platform globally with our server and data center infrastructure, security and compliance, operations, globalization, and manageability solutions.

Our focus is on smart growth, high efficiency, and delivering a trusted experience to customers and partners worldwide.

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Responsibilities As a Principal Engineer - ASIC verification in the Data Processing Unit team you will be validating silicon to solve complex problems in a datacenter. You will interact with the architecture team to develop a programmable silicon implementation. This position is expected to be highly visible and impactful.

The vast breadth of domains required to build our DPU silicon gives the perfect opportunity to experience different areas of expertise. The depth required to solve complex engineering problems utilizes your experience and provides you with the perfect platform to shine and grow to the next stage in your career.

Responsibilities

  • As a Principal Engineer in the Data Processing Unit team, you will be validating silicon to solve complex problems in a datacenter.
  • Lead key components of functional validation of complex ASIC SOC using UVM/C test bench
  • Perform pre-silicon SoC verification, post-silicon validation by defining testing strategies
  • Work with cross functional teams, architecture, design, verification, partner teams for project execution and influence next generation designs
  • Develop test plan, C tests and infrastructure to complete functional validation of complex design and report bug/issues
  • Running tests, debugging failures, creating stress and performance scenarios to meet test plan goals
  • Actively participate in chip bring up and write test firmware to support various teams
  • Innovate to improve validation efficiency through methodologies and tools
  • Coach and mentor others in your areas of expertise
  • Demonstrate Microsoft core values: Customer Focus, Adaptability, Collaboration, Growth Mindset, Drive for Results, Influence for Impact, Judgement, and Diversity & Inclusion

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

  • Doctorate in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 3+ years technical engineering experience OR Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience OR Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience OR equivalent experience.

Other Qualifications

Other Requirements:

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to, the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

This role will require access to information that is controlled for export under export control regulations, potentially under the U.S. International Traffic in Arms Regulations or Export Administration Regulations, the EU Dual Use Regulation, and/or other export control regulations.

As a condition of employment, the successful candidate will be required to provide either proof of their country of citizenship or proof of their US. residency or other protected status (e.g., under 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)) for assessment of eligibility to access the export- controlled information.

To meet this legal requirement, and as a condition of employment, the successful candidate’s citizenship will be verified with a valid passport. Lawful permanent residents, refugees, and asylees may verify status using other documents, where applicable.

Preferred Qualification s

  • 10+ years of experience in pre-silicon validation with a proven track record of delivering high performance Network switches/accelerators, Central Processing Unit (CPU), Vector processors and Graphics Processing Unit (GPU’s) or relevant experience.
  • Experience in UVM/C verification methodology
  • Knowledge of Ethernet, TCP/IP, ROCEv2, MAC/PCS, Networking NIC/Switches.
  • Proven track record with the definition and development of complex SoCs. In depth understanding of processors and peripheral interconnect bus protocols and architectures
  • proficiency in Verilog, System Verilog, and UVM based testbench environment.
  • Experience building UVM testbenches, managing regressions, meeting code coverage and functional coverage goals to successful tapeout.

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Silicon Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $142,800 - $274,800 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $188,000 - $304,200 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:

https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances.

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