Senior RTL to Physical Design 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 a Senior RTL to Physical Design Engineer 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 CSME 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 a Senior RTL to Physical Design Engineer with a 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 Senior RTL to Physical Design Engineer to join the team.

You will be a key link between front-end design and back-end teams. As a leader in the enablement of quality RTL and collateral file drops to PD, you will be responsible for implementing feedback and mitigations in the design constraints and toolchain to ensure best-case PPA. Effective communication skills will be needed to coordinate with RTL, DFT, CAD and physical design teams.

You will participate in flow development, design automation, and correlation exercises to back-end flows. You are expected to work with limited direction and have attention to detail. You will also be expected to be able to provide crisp status of progress, issues, and risks on the program to the management team.

Required Qualifications:

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:

• Bachelor of Science in Electrical or Computer Engineering.
• 8+ years of experience in hardware design.
• 8+ years of experience in Synthesis, Timing constraints, Front-end design checks and Power Performance Area (PPA) trade-offs.
• Experience in collateral development including timing and synthesis constraints.
• Experience in front-end design checks including LEC, Lint, Formal Equivalence, and CDC/RDC.
• Experience in recent synthesis tool capabilities and methods for QoR improvement.
• Experience in static timing analysis.
• Experience in DFT insertion flows and timing constraints.
• Familiarity with RTL and gate-level power analysis/optimization, UPF, and power-intent verification.
• Experience with the project-level setup and configuration of 1 or more of the tools related to above disciplines.
• Experience in translating physical design results into feedback for flow or RTL improvement.
• Experience in Tcl, Perl, Python, shell programming.
• Knowledge of full RTL2GDS flow.
• Experience in ICC, power integrity analysis, ESD, PV.
• Good communication and self-motivated that can collaborate with larger teams within Microsoft.
• Occasional travel

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Silicon 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.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
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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.

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