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
AI Silicon Engineering
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 a
Design Verification Engineer
to join the team.#SCHIE
Responsibilities
The AISiE silicon team is seeking a qualified and motivated computer or electrical engineer to contribute to the development of high-quality designs. The team is responsible for producing advanced, custom IP and SoC designs that achieve complex, high-performance functions with exceptional efficiency.
In This Role You Will
- Own verification of IP blocks or subsystems from planning through sign-off.
- Develop and maintain UVM-based testbenches, scoreboards, monitors, and checkers.
- Write and execute test plans, develop functional coverage models, and drive coverage closure.
- Debug RTL and testbench issues using industry-standard tools (e.g., Verdi).
- Collaborate with design, architecture, and post-silicon teams to ensure verification completeness.
- Contribute to tool and methodology improvements to enhance verification productivity.
- Participate in code reviews and provide mentorship to junior engineers.
Qualifications
Qualifications
- 3–7 years of experience in IP/SoC verification using SystemVerilog and UVM.
- Strong understanding of digital design fundamentals and verification methodologies.
- Familiarity with coverage-driven verification and assertion-based verification (SVA).
- Excellent problem-solving and communication skills.
Additional Or Preferred Qualifications
- Familiarity with writing assertions and formal verification.
- Knowledge of networking protocols, such as RDMA and Ethernet.
- Experience with scripting languages, including Python or Perl.
- Interest in or hands-on experience with deploying AI solutions.
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.
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 US. 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.Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, 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. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.
