Senior Verification 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.

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 Cloud AI & Advanced Systems Engineering (CAASE) team is instrumental in defining and delivering operational measures of success for hardware manufacturing-improving planning, quality, delivery, scale, and sustainability across Microsoft cloud hardware.

We are seeking a motivated Senior Verification Engineer who is enthusiatic about cutting-edge hardware acceleration and eager to translate this interest into commercial reality through Azure cloud services reaching thousands of customers and millions of servers.

Responsibilities:

• Verify IP blocks for Microsoft's next-generation cloud servers using FPGA and ASIC technologies.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop and validate IP for hardware acceleration platforms.
• Analyze complex verification challenges and drive creative, scalable solutions across simulation and debug workflows.
• Contribute to the development of reusable verification infrastructure and methodologies.
• Support pre-silicon validation efforts to enable early software development and hardware-software co-debug.

Qualifications:

Required Qualifications:

• Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 3+ years technical engineering experience OR Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 5+ years technical engineering experience
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 4+ years of verification experience.
• 3 years of developing UVM-based testbenches or completion of formal design verification (DV) training.

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:

• Experience as a technical team lead in verification or hardware development projects.
• Proficiency in Python and/or Perl for scripting and automation.
• Experience with FPGA design, implementation, and debug tools.
• Expereince in leveraging Copilot or LLM-based tools to enhance productivity and verification workflows.

Hardware Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 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 $158,400 - $258,000 per year.

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Microsoft will accept applications for the role until October 14th, 2025.

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