AddressMicrosoft Silicon, Cloud Hardware Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE) is the team behind Microsoft’s expanding Cloud Infrastructure and responsible for powering Microsoft’s “Intelligent Cloud” mission. CHIE delivers the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's over 200 online businesses including Bing, MSN, Office 365, Xbox Live, Teams, OneDrive and the Microsoft Azure platform globally with our server and data center infrastructure, security and compliance, operations, globalization, and manageability solutions. Our focus is on smart growth, high efficiency, and delivering trusted experiences to customers and partners worldwide and we are looking for passionate, high-energy engineers to help achieve that mission. As Microsoft's cloud business continues to grow the ability to deploy new offerings and HW infrastructure on time, in high volume with high quality and lowest cost is of paramount importance. We are looking for seasoned engineers with a strong passion for customer focused solutions, insight, and industry knowledge to envision and implement future technical solutions that will manage and optimize the Cloud infrastructure.
Responsibilities
Central to our mission is development of Storage Systems for Azure Datacenters based on our highly programmable data processing chip (DPU). As a SI & PI Engineer, you will be part of a world-class hardware team responsible for building complex DPU based systems.
- Perform system level signal integrity simulations of high-speed interfaces, create simulation models and develop simulation methodology for the designs.
- Perform Power Integrity simulations including AC and DC analysis.
- Develop serdes channel simulation models and correlate to test structures.
- Support stackup creation, develop layout/SI checklists, work with board engineers and layout designers to implement all SI rules.
- Perform SI DVT measurements on boards and correlate measurements with simulation results.
- Work cross-functionally with the other teams to plan and design the SI/PI needs for the system.
Qualifications
Required/Minimum Qualifications
- 7+ years of related technical engineering experience
- OR Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience or internship experience
- OR Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 3+ years technical engineering experience or internship experience
- Expertise in SI & PI analysis of complex multilayer PCBs & backplanes
- Experience in simulation/correlation using 2D/2.5D/3D simulation tools.
- Experience using Keysight ADS, Ansys HFSS, Cadence Sigrity, PowerSI, Ansys SIwave, Hspice, Matlab
- Strong technical knowledge & working experience with PCIe, DDR4/DDR5 (Memory, PHY, Controller), Ethernet (MAC/PHY), NRZ & PAM4 Serdes, I2C, SPI, MDIO..Etc
- Hands-on experience in using lab/debug tools (e.g., High-speed Oscilloscopes, TDR, VNA, Bertscope, and Spectrum Analyzer)
Additional or Preferred Qualifications
- 11+ years technical engineering experience
- OR Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience
- OR Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience
- Experience in bring-up/debug/characterize high speed serial links - DFE Tuning, Monitoring Eye quality, BER..Etc
- Good knowledge with scripting (PERL, TCL, etc)
- Good knowledge on package level simulation
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