Senior Silicon Design Engineer

Microsoft
U.S. / San Francisco Bay area / New York City metropolitan area2026-07-27onsite

About the job

We are looking for a Senior Design Engineer to work in the dynamic Microsoft Artificial Intelligence System on Chip (AISoC) Silicon team. The candidate must be a highly motivated self-starter who will thrive in this cutting-edge technical environment.

Responsibilities

You will be part of the design team driving many facets of high performance, high bandwidth Network-on-Chip designs in the start-of-the-art AI SoCs.

The tasks will include working on Intellectual Property (IP) microarchitecture specification, Register Transfer Level (RTL) design, synthesis/Lint/CDC/FEV and System on Chip (SOC) integration on different subsystems.

Throughout the program you will be interacting with various teams, including architecture, verification, and physical design, ensuring that the design is implemented and verified to the spec.

Qualifications

Minimum

Doctorate in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 1+ year(s) technical engineering experience

OR Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience

OR Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 5+ years technical engineering experience

OR equivalent experience.

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role.

Preferred

4+ years of experience delivering successful IP or Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASIC)/SOC designs.

4+ years expertise in Digital Design including microarchitecture specification development, RTL coding in Verilog/System Verilog and Clock Domain Crossing (CDC)/LINT closure.

4+ years of experience in Synthesis, Timing constraints, Power, Performance, Area (PPA) trade-offs and Post-Silicon Debug

4+ years of experience with Synthesis, Standard Design Constraints (SDC) and Unified Power format UPF

4+ years of experience working on SOC integration

Experience with industry standard interfaces such as Advanced extensible Interface (AXI), APB, JTAG

Experience with writing System Verilog assertions and coverpoints

Experience with scripting languages such as Perl or Python

Track record of successful tapeouts in deep sub-micron technologies

Communication skills and the ability to facilitate collaboration across Microsoft internal groups and external vendors

Ability and willingness to adapt and work on variety of designs