Microsoft's hardware teams incubate advanced technologies and build deep partnerships with internal research, product planning, and marketing teams. Microsoft ships tens of millions of hardware products every year, including the Xbox, Surface devices, HoloLens, accessories, and much more. Our opportunities represent a variety of disciplines including, but not limited to, design, verification, and performance modeling, and DevOps supporting the development of custom silicon. Microsoft's hardware teams are also expanding into new technologies such as quantum computing! We are looking for the best and brightest to join us in designing for the future!

Responsibilities

Responsibilities 

The Silicon Computing Development Organization is seeking passionate, driven and intellectually curious engineers to join our pre-silicon hardware design team. Our team is involved in numerous projects within Microsoft developing custom silicon for a diverse set of systems.  We are responsible for delivering cutting-edge IP designs that can perform complex and high-performance functions in the most efficient manner. In this high impact role on the team, you will: 

  

• Participate in the design of one or more areas of custom memory controller IPs (DDR5/LPDDR5 and future generations), DDR PHY, and/or memory subsystems 
• Develop high performance, high speed digital designs 
• Synthesize and close timing on your designs 
• Become an expert on the overall IP architecture, implementation of complex features/flows/protocols, and their interactions with SOCs and other IPs 
• Apply your knowledge of logic design principles and techniques and use your judgement to implement high performance, high efficiency memory controllers 

• Work closely with architects, other logic designers, and verification teams 
• Apply your growth mindset to learn and adapt in a complex and dynamic environment 
• Delight your customers by providing high quality results on schedule 
• Work with your teams in an environment of respect and integrity 
• Apply your expertise towards post-silicon bring-up plans, tests, and debug of your area 

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Must have a bachelor’s or master’s degree in Electrical, Computer, Engineering, Computer Science or a related degree. 
• 3+ years of pre-silicon SOC or IP logic design experience 

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with DDR Memory Controllers and/or design of complex, high-speed systems 
• Experience with Verilog, System Verilog, VHDL, Synopsys, Spyglass, Verdi 
• Experience with synthesis and timing tools with an emphasis on the logic and micro-architecture skills required to close timing 
• Knowledge of RAS, ECC, CRC, DFT 
• Ability to interface with cross-functional teams 
• Proficient communication, collaboration, and teamwork skills and ability to contribute to diverse and inclusive teams 
• Aptitude for writing scripts/software with industry standard languages like Python 

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.

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.