Microsoft
Senior Logic Design Engineer
$120K–$261K
Hillsboro, OR +4 · On-site · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2026
- Location
- Hillsboro, OR
Austin, TX
Mountain View, CA
Redmond, WA
Raleigh, NC - Experience
- Doctorate plus 1+ year, master's plus 4+ years, or bachelor's plus 5+ years of technical engineering experience; equivalent experience is also accepted.
- 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 RTL for a high-performance PCIe subsystem supporting Azure Cobalt, refining it for area, power, performance, quality, and timing.
What you'll do
- Build a PCIe subsystem from multiple IPs and collaborate with architecture and IP providers to meet SoC requirements.
- Refine implementations and perform design-quality checks, including Synthesis, Lint, CDC, RDC, Low Power Intent, and Logic Equivalence.
- Address dataflow, clocking, and timing-critical paths, and automate tasks with scripts.
What they ask for
- Doctorate in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 1+ year of technical engineering experience; or master's degree in one of these fields and 4+ years; or bachelor's degree in one of these fields and 5+ years; or equivalent experience.
- Ability to meet required Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including the Microsoft Cloud Background Check.
- Must provide citizenship or qualifying residency/protected-status proof for export-control eligibility assessment.
Nice to have
- Experience with high-speed PCIe designs and protocols, interface protocols such as AXI or APB, ARM Fabric IPs, or IPXACT.
- Experience with scripting, EDA tools, UPF, clock-crossing techniques, timing analysis and constraints, and low-power design.
Pay
USD $119,800 - $234,700 per year (base salary); USD $160,200 - $261,000 per year (base salary)
Tools
PCIe, AXI, APB, ARM Fabric IPs, IPXACT, Python, Tcl, Perl
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