Microsoft
Senior Security IP Engineer
$120K–$261K
Mountain View, CA +4 · On-site · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2026
- Location
- Mountain View, CA
Hillsboro, OR
Austin, TX
Redmond, WA
Raleigh, NC - Experience
- Required alternatives: 1+ year(s) with a doctorate, 4+ years with a master's degree, or 5+ years with a bachelor's degree, in technical engineering; equivalent experience is also accepted. Preferred: 8+ years of hardware design experience.
- Education
- Doctorate, Master's Degree, or Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field; or equivalent experience.
About the job
Leads end-to-end design and validation of security IP for Microsoft silicon, from architecture and RTL development through signoff and silicon bring-up.
What you'll do
- Develop security IP architecture and RTL, optimize performance and power, and lead design signoff.
- Integrate hardware security technologies and debug issues through pre-silicon verification and post-silicon bring-up.
- Collaborate across engineering teams, mentor engineers, and improve design methodologies.
What they ask for
- Doctorate in a related field and 1+ year(s) technical engineering experience, or Master's Degree and 4+ years, or Bachelor's Degree and 5+ years, or equivalent experience.
- Meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements, including the Microsoft Cloud Background Check.
- Provide citizenship, U.S. residency, or other protected-status documentation for export-control eligibility assessment.
Nice to have
- 8+ years of hardware design experience; expertise in digital design, microarchitecture, and RTL coding.
- Experience with Verilog, System Verilog, Python or Perl, AMBA AXI, CDC/RDC/LINT, PPA optimization, or cryptography standards.
Pay
USD $119,800 - $234,700 per year (base salary); USD $160,200 - $261,000 per year (base salary)
Tools
RTL, CDC, RDC, LINT, synthesis, STA, Verilog, System Verilog
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