Job Description

Microsoft is a highly innovative company that collaborates across disciplines to produce cutting edge technology that changes our world. Microsofts Silicon team builds custom silicon for a diverse set of systems ranging from innovative consumer products like Xbox to high-performance Azure cloud servers, clients, and augmented reality.We are looking for a Senior Silicon Back-end Implementation Engineer to work on leading edge IP development as part of the Semi-custom and Central IP Silicon team. The candidate should be a motivated self-starter who will thrive in this cutting-edge technical environment.Microsofts mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.Were committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage applicants from all background and walks of life. Difference makes us better.Responsibilities:As a senior silicon back-end implementation engineer, you role will be multi-faceted: to be a key link between RTL and PD teams, and to perform PD hardening on best-in-class designs.For some designs, your responsibility will be to handoff quality design solutions to a hardening team. As a leader in the enablement of quality RTL and collateral drops to PD, you will be responsible for implementing feedback and mitigations in the design constraints and toolchain to ensure best-in-class PPA. You will also be responsible for guiding and unblocking the PD hardening teams as they implement our designs. Strong communication skills will be needed to coordinate with RTL, DFT, CAD and physical design teams.For other designs, your responsibility will be to deliver a hardened GDS, which may involve the integration of custom macros developed by internal teams. In this role, you will be responsible for full GDS implementation and signoff, as well as following integration guidelines from the custom macro development teams. You will be responsible for proposing and following schedules and quality definitions for PD drops and milestones while maximizing PPA and ensuring smooth closure of all sign-off activities. In this role, you will interact with a diverse set of teams including RTL, DFT, CAD, integration, physical signoff, custom/analog teams, and program management and should be conversant in these topics.You will participate in flow development, design automation, and correlation exercises to back-end flows. You are expected to work with limited direction and have attention to detail. You will also be expected to be able to provide crisp status of progress, issues, and risks on the program to the management team.Qualifications:Required

• Bachelor of Science in Electrical or Computer Engineering

• 7+ years of experience in hardware design

• 6+ years of experience in Synthesis, Timing constraints, Front-end design checks and Power Performance Area (PPA) trade-offs

• 6+ years of experience in RTL-to-GDS activities, including PPA optimization, analog integration, and physical signoff activities

• Proficiency in collateral development including timing and synthesis constraints

• Proficiency in front-end design checks including LEC, Lint, Formal Equivalence, and CDC/RDC

• Proficiency in recent synthesis tool capabilities and methods for QoR improvement

• Proficiency in static timing analysis

• Familiarity with RTL and gate-level power analysis/optimization, UPF, and power-intent verification

• Experience with the project-level setup and configuration of 1 or more of the tools related to above disciplines

• Proficiency in translating physical design results into feedback for flow or RTL improvement

• Proficiency in Tcl, Perl, Python, shell programming

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. 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 .

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