Job Description

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 passionate 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 Cloud Computer Development Organization (CCDO) team is instrumental in defining and delivering operational measures of success for hardware manufacturing, improving the planning process, quality, delivery, scale and sustainability related to Microsoft cloud hardware. We are looking for seasoned engineers 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.


We are looking for an RTL Subsystem Design Engineer to join the team.

Responsibilities
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• Own subsystem integrating several industry standard IPs
• Collaborate with architecture, subsystem owners, and IP providers to configure the IP to maximize performance for various use cases.
• Grow your micro-architectural knowledge of your own blocks as well as other blocks in the SoC.
• Assess and then refine the implementation for area, power, and performance.
• Perform design quality checks such as Lint, CDC, RDC, Low Power Intent, Synthesis, Logic Equivalence.
• Understand Dataflow and Clocking requirements and drive solutions for timing critical paths.
• Automate tasks using scripting for efficiency.
• Delight your customers who receive your deliverable by providing high quality functional block on schedule and with professional integrity.
• Collaborate with highly energetic cross functional team members with respect and with One Microsoft mentality to establish synergies.
• Challenge the status quo with a growth mindset.

Qualifications
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• MS in Electrical Engineering or BS in Computer/Electrical Engineering with 6+ years of experience.
• Proficient in Verilog/System Verilog coding constructs.
• Knowledge of front-end tools (Verilog simulators, Connectivity tools, CDC checkers, low power static checkers, linting)

Preferred skills: • Experience with Industry standard interface protocols such as AXI, APB, etc.
• Experience with ARM Fabric IPs
• Experience with IPXACT
• Understanding of Computer Architecture fundamentals
• Ability to write scripts using Python, Tcl, Perl etc.
• Experience in EDA tools such as VCS, VCLP, Spyglass Lint, Questa CDC, Fusion Compiler, Design Compiler, Genus
• Proficiency with UPF (Low power intent).
• Proficiency in clock crossing techniques
• Knowledge of Static Timing Analysis and understanding of timing signoff fundamentals.
• Applied understanding of low power design principles.
• Understanding in design closure challenges in power and clock domain crossings.
• Experience writing timing constraints, exceptions, and clock constraints; good understanding in SDC commands and TCL constraints
• Organized and Detail oriented
• Good verbal and written communication skills.




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