The Microsoft Silicon team is transforming the ways people communicate, create, and collaborate through the devices and components we develop. We are a growing team of engineers on a mission to develop revolutionary designs and ship first-to-market products.  Azure, XBOX, Surface and Hololens incorporate our internally developed silicon components.

Our team is creative and resourceful; we value growth and learning.

We want to amplify your abilities so you can do your best work.

Join us, and together we will turn groundbreaking hardware designs into reality!

Responsibilities

Responsibilities:

The position will have responsibility for product/test engineering for new product development and manufacturing.

• The position requires someone with experience in semiconductor IC development, IC manufacturing, fabrication, test, and packaging.
• Successful candidates should have strong project leadership skills to manage external vendors, drive cross functional teams and drive sub-project as part of larger development programs.
• They should also have excellent knowledge of ATE test program development including test method development, test bring-up, characterization, debug, and yield analysis.
• The candidate should also be knowledge in DFT, silicon fabrication process, product Q&R, and basic transistor theory.
• The candidate would benefit from background in various product market area such as high-performance compute, AI, GPUs, telecom.
• Knowledge of high-speed serial IO test and characterization is a plus.
• Knowledge of active thermal management at test is a plus.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

5+ years of working experience with each of the following:

• Solid understanding of SOC operation
• Product and test engineering – SOC, GPU, CPU, FPGA, smart NIC.
• Product manufactures manufacturing flows – Semiconductor manufacturing flows.
• Post Silicon debug and yield improvement.
• BS in Electrical Engineering

Preferred Qualifications

• MS In Electrical Engineering.
• Experience with FPGA products, design, application and verification tools (Vivado, LiberoSoC, Cadence Xcelium, or similar) are strongly preferred
• Experience in ATE usage, preferably Advantest 93K ATE.
• Experience in SOC, FPGA silicon test HVM methodologies and implementation is a plus.
• Experience working with cloud hardware infrastructures and regression test execution
• Software skills - scripting languages – Perl, C or other relevant scripting language.
• Background Product characterization – Power / Vmin / PVT.
• Process technologies – Advanced Process nodes, 5-10nM, FinFET.
• High speed interfaces.
• Cost reduction – Cost reduction comes from Yield Improvement, Supply chain Optimization, test time reduction.
• CMOS device and product reliability – Complementarity Metal oxide Semiconductor.
• Outstanding problem solving, statistical analysis, and failure debug skills to root cause Silicon issues are required. Relevant experience in EFA and PFA – Electrical [E] & Physical [P] Failure Analysis [FA].
• Product packaging – SOC, GPU, CPU.
• Presentation and communication skills – Cross functional teams and Senior management.

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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