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Principal SoC Fabric Architect - Microsoft Corporation
Austin, TX
Posted: Nov 16, 2022 05:03

Job Description

Microsoft's hardware teams incubate advanced technologies and build deep partnerships with internal research, product planning, business, and marketing teams. Microsoft ships tens of millions of hardware products every year, including the Xbox, Surface devices, HoloLens, accessories, and much more. Our opportunities represent a variety of disciplines including, but not limited to, design, verification, performance modeling, and DevOps supporting the development of custom silicon. Microsoft's hardware teams are also expanding into new technologies such as quantum computing! We are looking for candidates to bring their authentic selves as we build/design the future

Responsibilities

As a Principal SoC Fabric Architect in the Silicon Engineering and Solutions team, you will drive the fabric architecture for the product and be at the center of chip design and enabling effort all the way from defining architecture, helping with implementation, ensuring verification coverage and finally with silicon bring-up and validation, for our projects. This new team will be involved in numerous projects within Microsoft developing custom silicon for a diverse set of systems. We are responsible for delivering cutting-edge, custom SoC designs that can perform complex and high-performance functions in the most efficient manner. In this high impact & highly visible role on the team, you will be responsible for:

  • Leading the definition of high performance and low power scalable coherent and non-coherent interconnects for Compute cores, Caches, IO controllers, Memory subsystems, and Accelerators.

  • Definition of various transport topologies, routing algorithms, deadlock avoidance and concepts like virtual channels

  • Continue to assess and then refine the architecture to optimize for product goals, while taking area, power, and performance into consideration. Challenge the status quo with a growth mindset.

  • Defining speeds and feeds for the SoC fabric and architecting end to end QoS solutions.

  • Collaboration across HW, FW and SW teams to optimize full stack solution.

  • Author the architectural specification to represent the vision of the product for key consuming partner architects, IP providers, as well as FW, design, and verification engineers.

  • Mentor and assist junior level engineers to learn and grow.

Qualifications

  • BS, MS, or Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, or Computer Engineering or equivalent experience

  • 8+ years of experience in the field of architecture

  • Strong understanding of processor architecture, industry standard interface protocols, packaging technologies and micro-architecture gained as part of CPU, SoC and/or IP development teams.

  • Ability to work with multiple teams with proven collaboration, communication, and leadership.

Additional Preferred Requirements:

  • Computer system and silicon architecture knowledge in areas such as performance, quality of service, power management, security, interconnects, microprocessors, memory systems, accelerators and I/O device architecture.

  • Extensive experience in building coherent interconnects and distributed caching architectures.

  • Understanding of Interrupt architecture and integration into SoC.

  • Understanding of Security threat models and architecting secured access paths.

  • Understanding of industry standard coherent and non-coherent protocols.

  • Detailed understanding of Performance and Power Architecture and Modeling

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form (https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/accommodationrequest) .

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to, the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

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