Principal Software Engineer

Overview

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 Microsoft Silicon Engineering and Solutions Team is seeking a passionate and driven software engineer to be a technical leader for our central software team. This team drives state-of-the-art converged solutions, software tools, DevOps workflows and automation to support silicon design areas such as RTL & VIP Design, Design Verification, Validation, DFT, Emulation, PD Handoff and IP integration.

We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join our team!

Responsibilities

• Be a leader in a central CAD Software team that develops a common tool stack to internal SoC and IP designs.
• Lead technical strategy and execution for CAD DevOps workflows, including CI/CD, cloud-based EDA environments, and automation frameworks.
• Lead software best practices within the CAD Software team.
• Work in close collaboration with the CAD Hardware and Compute infrastructure teams.
• Design software solutions and documentation that scale to a large user base.
• Be the expert in your domain and act in partnership with the execution team.
• Work with stakeholders across the Microsoft Silicon groups to collect software requirements.
• Develop, enhance, and integrate CAD Flows and automation for organization-wide use.

Qualifications

Required/minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.

Other Qualifications:

• 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.

Additional Preferred:

• 10+ years of experience in Software development.
• Expert knowledge of common programming paradigms (Object-Oriented, Functional, etc)
• Leadership skills with proven track record of leading small teams and influencing stakeholders.
• Experienced writing software with industry standard languages like Python, TCL, Perl, C/C++ (Python preferred)
• Expertise to own, maintain and drive complex Software projects independently.
• Expertise in Software Development Best practices.
• Experience owning and driving end to end software development life cycle for multiple complex software projects.
• Understanding of software design patterns.
• Well-rounded and familiar with silicon design Tools, Flows and Methodologies.
• Expertise in Azure environments, Azure Security and DevOps concepts
• Experience with continuous integration systems.
• Expertise in Computer Architecture, as well as CPU/SoC design principles.
• Exposure to Design and Verification execution and flows/infrastructure that is used

Software 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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This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. 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 with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.