Microsoft
Senior Logic Design Engineer
$120K–$261K
Hillsboro, OR +4 · On-site · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 16, 2026
- Location
- Hillsboro, OR
Redmond, WA
Mountain View, CA
Austin, TX
Raleigh, NC - Experience
- Doctorate and 1+ year(s) technical engineering experience; or Master's degree and 4+ years; or Bachelor's degree and 5+ years; or equivalent experience.
- 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
Designs and delivers logic design and timing collateral for Microsoft cloud silicon, optimizing RTL and supporting Physical Design handoff through tape-out.
What you'll do
- Create and maintain SDC timing constraints, and support Physical Design, STA, and DFT teams from RTL handoff through tape-out.
- Analyze synthesis results, optimize RTL for PPA, and perform design-quality checks including timing closure, lint, CDC, synthesis, and low-power intent.
- Develop and integrate functional-block RTL, automate tasks with scripts, and use AI to improve process and development efficiency.
What they ask for
- Technical engineering experience and a degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- Meet Microsoft Cloud Background Check requirements.
- Provide citizenship or residency/protected-status documentation to determine eligibility for access to export-controlled information.
Nice to have
- Experience with static timing analysis, SDC/timing constraints, and synthesis setup, debugging, and quality.
- Knowledge of logic design flows, Verilog/SystemVerilog, front-end tools, clock crossings, UPF, and scripting languages such as Perl, Tcl, or Python.
Pay
USD $119,800 - $234,700 per year (base pay); USD $160,200 - $261,000 per year (base pay)
Tools
SDC, RTL, STA, DFT, UPF, Verilog/System Verilog, Perl, Tcl, Python
AI focus
Use AI to improve efficiency within process and development.
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