Microsoft
Senior Physical Design Engineer
$120K–$261K
Hillsboro, OR +4 · On-site · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 18, 2026
- Location
- Hillsboro, OR
Mountain View, CA
Austin, TX
Raleigh, NC
Redmond, WA - Experience
- 1+ year with a doctorate, 4+ years with a master's, or 5+ years with a bachelor's; or equivalent experience. Preferred: 7+ years in semiconductor design.
- Education
- Doctorate, master's, or bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field; or equivalent experience.
About the job
Executes end-to-end physical design for Microsoft silicon, from synthesis through RTL-to-GDS implementation and signoff, while optimizing clock construction, tools, and methodologies.
What you'll do
- Drive synthesis through place-and-route and signoff, including timing, physical verification, EMIR, formal equivalence, and low-power verification.
- Own clock construction and CTS, and optimize SOC blocks and physical-design methodologies.
- Coordinate with design, CAD, architecture, DFT, power and performance, technology, and partner teams.
What they ask for
- Doctorate in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field and 1+ year of technical engineering experience; or Master's degree in one of those fields and 4+ years; or Bachelor's degree in one of those fields and 5+ years; or equivalent experience.
- Pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire or transfer and every two years thereafter.
- Provide citizenship or residency/protected-status documentation for export-control eligibility assessment.
Nice to have
- At least 7 years of semiconductor design experience.
- Production silicon tape-outs at advanced foundry nodes; low-power design, PPA trade-offs, and clock construction experience.
Pay
USD $119,800 - $234,700 per year (base salary); USD $160,200 - $261,000 per year (base salary)
Tools
synthesis, place-and-route, CTS, RTL to GDS, EMIR, Formal Equivalence, Low Power Verification
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