Principal Silicon Debug Engineer

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.

The Compute Silicon & Manufacturing Engineering (CSME) organization within SCHIE is responsible for design, development, manufacturing and packaging of Microsoft's state-of-the-art computer chips, notably the Azure Cobalt. Our solutions provide sustainable strategic advantage to Microsoft and enable our customers to achieve more.

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 Silicon, Manufacturing and Packaging Engineering (SMPE) 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 Principal Silicon Debug Engineer to join the team.

Responsibilities:

• This is a senior technologist role that will guide Microsoft's strategy and execution on silicon debug, FA/FI and debug tool readiness
• The candidate should have experience building end to end debug solutions: HW, SW, design collateral procurement, readiness for physical/electrical debug tools and physical FA readiness
• The position requires someone with experience in semiconductor debug, fault isolation, failure analysis and product engineering yield debug
• The candidate will be responsible for developing new silicon debug methodologies for all test content types in our MFG flow
• The candidate will also be responsible for root-cause of key product issues, circuit marginalities, special circuit failures and translate them into corrective actions in the design, our design methodologies and/or the MFG test flow
• Successful candidates have deep understanding and experience debugging product issues on ATE and using analytical equipment to isolate failures
• Deep understanding of best-in class silicon debug tools and methodologies is a must
• 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
  
  

Qualifications:

Required Qualifications:

• Doctorate in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 3 years technical engineering experience
• OR Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 6 years technical engineering experience
• OR Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 8 years technical engineering experience
• OR equivalent experience.
• 5 years of experience in product and test engineering, specialize in silicon debug or FA/FI
• 5 years of experience building debug methodology solutions for complex state-of-the-art SoC in advance process nodes

Other Requirements:

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
  
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Proven debug track record on complex SoC
• Experience defining and coding debug tools
• Strong system-level debuggers with a background on debug tools and enough ATE/MFG exposure will be considered
• Experience with System-level debug and correlation to ATE
• Strong presentation and communication skills.
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• Leading cross functional teams and understands program/project management.
• Managing supply chain, vendors / partners, and Integrated Circuit production.
• Experience in system/customer requirements gathering and interfacing.
• Strong probability and statistics background including DOE's.
• Knowledgeable in DFT and DFM techniques.
• Good understanding of bring-up/debug, characterization/manufacturing test (on ATEs).
• Ability to drive development and bring up test content on mixed signal IP's is a plus.
• Device physics background.

Silicon Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $139,900 - $274,800 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $188,000 - $304,200 per year.

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Microsoft will accept applications for the role until October 20, 2025.

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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