IP Verification Engineer II

Company: Microsoft
Location: Mountain View
Posted on: October 31, 2025

Job Description:

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 Microsofts 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 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 Microsofts state of the art custom computer chips, notably the Azure Cobalt. Our solutions provide sustainable strategic advantage to Microsoft and enable our customers to achieve more. As Microsofts 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 Compute Silicon and Manufacturing Organization ( C SME ) is instrumental in defining and delivering operational measures of success for the Cobalt program through hardware manufacturing, improving the planning process, quality, delivery, scale and sustainability related to Microsoft cloud hardware. CSME is at the forefront of innovation and application of AI to silicon development workflows. We are looking for IP Verification E ngineers 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 an IP Verification Engineer II to join the team. Qualifications Required Qualifications: Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 1 year(s) technical engineering experience OR Bachelors Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 2 years technical engineering experience OR equivalent experience. 1 years of pre-silicon subsystem or IP verification experience. 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: Understanding of cache coherency and/or fabric interconnect architectures and microarchitectures Demonstrated experience in verifying designs that utilize Coherent Hub Interface (CHI), Advanced Microcontroller Bus Architecture (AMBA) protocols, or other fabric protocols Experience with verification for a full product cycle from definition to silicon, including writing test plans, developing tests, debugging failures and coverage signoff Experience creating, maintaining, or integrating test benches, checkers and stimulus using Universal Verification Methodology (UVM), System Verilog Test Bench (SVTB), and optionally Python based post-processing checking Aptitude for writing scripts/software with industry standard languages like Python Experience applying generative AI to day-to-day tasks Silicon Engineering IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $100,600 - $199,000 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 $131,400 - $215,400 per year. Microsoft will accept applications for the role until October 6, 2025. Responsibilities Own verification of complex flows at Fabric Interconnect or at block level Learn about the design and interact with partner teams to define verification strategies and test plans Develop verification environments and run and debug simulations to drive quality Apply random-stimulus and coverage-based techniques to find bugs and meet test plan goals Innovate to improve verification efficiency through methodologies or tools Apply industry leading generative AI solutions to verification work Demonstrate Microsoft core values: Customer Focus, Adaptability, Collaboration, Growth Mindset, Drive for Results, Influence for Impact, Judgement, and Diversity & Inclusion

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