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Microsoft Corporation Principal Silicon Architect in Redmond, Washington
The Windows & Devices team is on a journey to deliver iconic end-to-end products across hardware, software, and services that people love and use every day. To realize this Windows needs to enable the creation of desirable and powerful devices that enable the experiences people want. Creating these new experiences and devices requires an obsession with bringing together the right experience with our passion to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.
The Windows Silicon and System Architecture (WSSI) team is currently recruiting a Principal Silicon Architect with a passion for delivering high quality SoC experiences. As a Principal Silicon Architect on our team, you will be responsible to provide detailed requirements, innovate on capabilities and experiences seeking improving SoC power/performance and battery life while enabling unique experiences by working with Windows OS, 1st party applications and SW vendors. This role requires detailed orientation and affinity to enable efficiencies in process and methodologies from early interaction to our silicon through guiding and engineering organization from experiences to the final product release. You, in collaboration with the rest of the team, will work with system engineers in specifying the SoC needs delivering high power/performance solutions while balancing feature capability and cost for product category.
Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
Responsibilities
Tuning and optimizing our Silicon Architecture process and methodologies. Requires understanding the balance for prompt delivery of requirements and maintaining rigorous follow up with partners and engineering organizations.
Evaluating and defining SoC goals and architecture that enable devices-experiences expectations.
Staying in tune with the competitive landscape of the ecosystem, technology trends and roadmaps, existing architecture and areas of improvements.
Architecting and leading the design of the power management sub-system.
Specifying system-level power management functionality (FW and HW) application processor SoCs .
Estimating power consumption and silicon area of complex systems .
Tuning SoC strategy based on knowledge of industry capability and opportunities for IP ownership and tuning methods.
Qualifications
Required Qualfications
Doctorate in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field AND 3+ years technical engineering experience
OR Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience
OR Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience
OR equivalent experience.
8+ years ownership of SoC products definition and architecture.
Knowledge of mobile computing power/performance trade-off, tuning methods and SW components interactions including knowledge on Si process technologies and manufacturing methods.
Experience managing great levels of ambiguity and minimal direction to extract relevant goals while driving to completion.
Preferred Qualifications
10+ years ownership of SoC products definition and architecture.
Expert knowledge of mobile computing power/performance trade-off, tuning methods and SW components interactions. This includes knowledge on Si process technologies and manufacturing methods.
Outstanding interpersonal skills - cross-group and cross-culture collaboration.
Demonstrated ability to perform in a high paced product development environment.
Ability to perform in a high paced product development environment.
Electrical Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $137,600 - $267,000 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $180,400 - $294,000 per year.
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
Microsoft will accept applications for the role until February 5, 2025.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html) .