Senior Silicon Engineer

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 and we are looking for engineers to help achieve that mission.

As Microsoft's cloud business continues to accelerate, the ability to deliver new silicon innovations and infrastructure at scale, with quality, speed, and cost efficiency, has never been more critical. Within SCHIE, the Methodology, Infrastructure & Labs Engineering (MILE) organization plays a pivotal role in enabling Microsoft's silicon strategy. MILE is responsible for end-to-end silicon design methodologies, EDA/CAD ecosystems, and the underlying compute infrastructure that powers the development of Microsoft's custom silicon portfolio - the Azure Cobalt and Azure Maia processors.

We are seeking a Silicon Front-End (FE) CAD Software Engineer to develop, maintain, and support CAD flows and methodologies, as well as dashboards, CAD indicators, and automation used across Microsoft's front-end silicon design ecosystem. The role requires Python software-development skills, hands-on experience building and testing end-to-end, system-level software, and a solid understanding of front-end CAD flows and methodologies.

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Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and support Frontend CAD flows and methodologies.
• Design, develop, and maintain CAD software, utilities, and automation for FE flows using Python, following disciplined software-engineering practices.
• Build and maintain dashboards and CAD indicators/metrics that provide visibility into flow health, quality, runtime, and design productivity.
• Develop and maintain regression and continuous-integration frameworks to evaluate flow stability, functionality, runtime, and quality of results.
• Analyse results and identify functional, runtime, resource, or quality regressions across tool and flow releases.
• Debug complex issues across CAD software, flows, scripts, and compute/cloud environments.
• Automate repetitive CAD activities and develop scalable, system-level utilities and applications, primarily in Python.
• Use Git-based version control and code-review practices to manage CAD flow development and releases.
• Collaborate with design, verification, methodology, and CAD engineers, and EDA vendors, to collect requirements and improve design productivity.
• Maintain high-quality documentation for software and flow releases, regression results, known issues, and methodology changes.
• Continuously improve flow reliability, scalability, automation, and turnaround time.
• Using AI to automate daily tasks and implementing AI based workflows

Required Qualifications

• BS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience.
• At least 6 years of hands-on experience developing and supporting software, automation, or CAD flows and methodologies, with proficiency in Python.
• Hands-on experience with end-to-end, Python-based, system-level development projects, including testing of complex systems.

Preferred Qualifications

MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent work experience.

4+ years of relevant experience developing and maintaining FE CAD flows, methodologies, automation, or infrastructure software.

Experience building dashboards, CAD indicators/metrics, and reporting or analytics solutions.

Familiarity with front-end design and verification flows and methodologies (RTL, DV, DFT, lint, CDC/RDC, IP integration, design handoff/release).

Experience with FE CAD infrastructure - build/run/release flows, continuous integration (CI/CD), flow orchestration, design data management, and version control; object-oriented programming and software-development practices; exposure to Azure cloud infrastructure and DevOps.

Hands-on experience developing AI-based workflows and automation.

Self-motivation, Growth mindset, Ownership mindset, attention to detail, and good written, verbal, and presentation skills are critical to success in this role

Other Requirements

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements is required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to, the following specialized security screening:

Microsoft Cloud Background Check. This position is required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire or 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 U.S. permanent 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.

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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