Microsoft
Principal Design Verification Engineer
$143K–$304K
Redmond, WA +4 · On-site · Principal · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2026
- Location
- Redmond, WA
Mountain View, CA
Hillsboro, OR
Austin, TX
Raleigh, NC - Experience
- 3+ years with a doctorate, 6+ years with a master's degree, or 8+ years with a bachelor's degree; equivalent experience is also accepted. Preferred: 9+ years in silicon verification and 5+ years in chip/computer architecture.
- Education
- Doctorate, master's, or bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field; or equivalent experience.
About the job
Verifies Microsoft AI accelerators through silicon design verification, from creating test environments and plans to debugging simulations and supporting post-silicon validation.
What you'll do
- Create verification environments, tests, reference models, and verification plans for IP, subsystem, and SoC designs.
- Develop verification components and scripts, drive feature coverage, and debug testbench, simulation, and emulation failures.
- Collaborate across engineering teams on design challenges and post-silicon validation.
What they ask for
- Doctorate in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field and 3+ years of technical engineering experience; OR a master's degree in one of these fields and 6+ years; OR a bachelor's degree in one of these fields and 8+ years; OR equivalent experience.
- Meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including the Microsoft Cloud Background Check.
- Provide citizenship or qualifying residency/protected-status documentation for export-control eligibility assessment.
Nice to have
- 9+ years creating simulation environments, developing tests, and debugging for multiple silicon IPs or systems; 5+ years in chip and/or computer architecture.
- Experience with Verilog or VHDL, C/C++, scripting languages, System Verilog, UVM, CPU or graphics core verification, hardware emulation or FPGAs, or firmware development.
Pay
USD $142,800 - $274,800 per year (base salary); USD $188,000 - $304,200 per year (base salary)
Tools
Verilog, VHDL, C/C++, Python, Ruby, Perl, System Verilog, UVM
AI focus
Verifies Microsoft’s latest AI accelerators; no AI model development is stated.
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