Microsoft's hardware teams incubate advanced technologies and build deep partnerships with internal research, product planning, business 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, 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 candidates to bring their authentic selves as we build/design the future!

Responsibilities

The Silicon Engineering and Solutions team is seeking passionate, driven and intellectually curious engineers to join our SoC design team covering power and performance studies, including projections, architectural and circuit simulations, what-if analysis and direction setting for our programs. This new team will be involved in numerous projects within Microsoft developing custom silicon for a diverse set of systems. We are responsible for delivering cutting-edge, custom SoC designs that can perform complex and high-performance functions in the most efficient manner. In these high impact roles on the team, you will be responsible for a subset of:

• Work with business, architecture, and design teams to understand power and performance requirements and collaborate across functional teams to meet these needs in technology development planning and path finding.
• Develop power and performance modeling methodology by creating and owning SOC architectural power models. Project and report power constrained SOC performance results to senior management.
• Use case profiling, workload analysis and PnP modeling, and correlation/validation to post-silicon.
• Work with IP Micro-architects and RTL team to incorporate low power design methodologies and power saving techniques. Identify IP/SOC power saving opportunities and drive definition of power saving uArch features.
• Work with IP/workload teams to define vectors/benchmarks to track and characterize power for different use cases.
• Understand product SOC power and performance interactions with power delivery and thermal solutions at the system level.
• Provide technical leadership and collaborate across teams to come up with the best solution possible with a One Microsoft mindset
• Apply your growth mindset to learn and adapt in a complex and dynamic environment.

Qualifications

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering (Masters/ PhD preferred) or equivalent work experience
• 5+ years of experience in SOC power architectural trade-off analysis or design

Preferred Qualifications

• Deep understanding of computer architecture, SOC and system-SW architectures, and their power/performance tradeoffs.
• Experience developing SOC power and performance modeling techniques and benchmarks from conception to microarchitecture specification to post-silicon validation.
• Strong understanding of memory and interconnect sub-systems.
• Knowledge of performance monitors and post-silicon SOC power and performance tuning.
• Familiarity with ASIC power analysis, low power design and power optimization.
• Familiarity with industry standard tools/flows such as PTPX, and Power Artist.
• Excellent communication, collaboration and teamwork skills and ability to contribute to diverse and inclusive teams.
  

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.

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