Senior Silicon Architect | Sunnyvale, CA

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  • Location: Mountain View, CA

  • Company: Microsoft

MSN, Office 365, Xbox Live, Teams, One Drive, 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 passionate, high-energy engineers to help achieve that mission.

As Microsoft's cloud business continues to grow the ability to deploy new offerings and hardware infrastructure on time, in high volume with high quality and lowest cost is of paramount importance. To achieve this goal, the Semi-Custom and Central IP Silicon (SCIPS) Team

is instrumental in defining and delivering operational measures of success for hardware manufacturing, improving the planning process, quality, delivery, scalability and sustainability related to Microsoft cloud hardware.

We are looking for a Senior Silicon Architect with a dedicated passion for customer focused solutions, insight and industry knowledge to envision and implement future technical solutions that will manage and optimize the Cloud infrastructure. Qualifications: Required/Minimum Qualifications: 7+ years of related technical engineering experience OR Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 4+ years technical

engineering experience or internship experience OR Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 3+ years technical engineering experience or internship experience OR Doctorate degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.

3+ years RTL design experience OR developing functional and performance architecture models in C, C++, System Verilog, Python, or Matlab. 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.

Preferred Qualifications: Demonstrated track record of architecting So C / IP from collecting requirements, performing what-if silicon trade-off analysis, architecture/microarchitecture specifications to design correlation at RTL and post silicon validation. Demonstrated track record of successful design of IPs and So Cs. Knowledgeable in Networking, or Storage is a plus. Knowledge in one or more industry standard interfaces such as AMBA AXI, PCIe, CXL, Ethernet, and DDR/LPDDR.

Modelling experience on No C, memory sub-system, data path pipeline, IO sub-system and interfaces, hardware acceleration engines. Familiarity with So C interconnects, coherency protocols, virtual memory, memory controllers. Effective communication skills. Ability to read and write detailed architectural specs. Silicon Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U. S. is USD $112,000 - $218,400 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 $145,800 - $238,600 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: careers. /us/en/us-corporate-pay 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, interaction (including pregnancy), interactionual 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. Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

#azurehwjobs #SCIPS #silicon Responsibilities: As a Senior Silicon Architect, you will be on the leading edge of computing, building lasting relationships with various cross-functional groups to develop high-performance and innovative So C S ilicon and Intellectual Property (IP). You are expected to work with limited direction, have attention to detail and be able to provide crisp status of progress, issues, and risks on the program to the management team. Responsibilities include: Deliver architecture specs at the So C and IP level by: Work ing with System and So C architects on functional and performance requirements and modelling for analysis and trade-off studies.

Drive evaluation and provide recommendations for technology, IP, and vendor selection. Engage with external vendor and internal development. Support design and verification in pre and post silicon to ensure features and performance meet the architectural requirements. Be part of a vertically integrated team by ensuring silicon gets successfully deployed in Microsoft products. Requisition #: 1667292pca3lyuhf

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