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 enable everyone to do and be their best.

T he Windows Silicon and System Architecture (WSSI ) team is currently recruiting a Principal Power and Performance Verification Architect with a proven track record of delivering high quality results, leading to exceptional user experiences. As the subsystem lead for this team, you will provide detailed requirements and drive quality with our partners on their designs . You will seek to improve performance/power and battery life by working with Windows OS, first-party applications, and third-party components.

The Principal Power and Performance Verification Architect is a leader in the hardware industry who has in-depth experience driving designs to meet timing requirements and power targets from the SoC level down to each unit. They will be responsible for creating a verification methodology, collaborating with and contributing to performance simulation and power delivery teams to model designs and drive partners’ silicon designs to convergence. The candidate will build a sustainable infrastructure to deliver exceptional experiences across our entire portfolio of future generation products. This role requires detail orientation and affinity to enable efficiencies in process and methodologies - from early interaction to our silicon, through guiding an engineering organization on user experiences to the final product release.

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.

In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.

Responsibilities

• Lead power and performance analysis. Measure, analyze, and debug workloads to identify power and performance issues and solve them.

• Work with OS and software teams to develop workloads and create simulation traces.

• Pre Silicon & Post Silicon power validation, debug and optimization by working with hardware, software, BIOS, and Firmware teams.

• Analyze power modeling results to identify potential areas for power reduction and optimization.

• Measure and analyze SoC and platform power on a rail-by-rail basis and debug any issues/gaps.

• Understand overall SoC architecture and contribute to decisions based on IP capabilities, functionality, and value.

• Contribute to the selection of IP and define IP goals that meet device product expectations and exceptional customer experiences while meeting schedule, quality, and cost commitments.

• Other

• Embody our Culture (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/about/corporate-values) and Values (https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/culture)

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• 12+ years of technical engineering experience

• OR Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field AND 10+ years of technical engineering experience

• OR Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field AND 8+ years of technical engineering experience

• OR Doctorate degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field AND 3+ years of technical engineering experience.

• 8+ years demonstrated experience in Architecture or Design Development of client subsystems.

• 6+ years leading the performance and power verification of a client CPU or SoC.

Additional Or Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field AND 12+ years of technical engineering experience

• OR Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field AND 10+ years of technical engineering experience.

• 10+ years demonstrated experience in Architecture or Design Development of client subsystems.

• 8+ years leading the performance and power verification of a client CPU or SoC.

• Expertise in multiple domains as well as corresponding hardware, PCB, SoC, high speed link design, debug, and support experience

• Experience with hands-on firmware debug

• Familiarity with Windows Performance Analyzer andgood in analyzing ETL traces

• Demonstratable knowledge of client computing SoC Architecture, requirements, and definition in order to understand how each domain fits optimally.

• Expertise of domains’ operating systems and driver foundations, firmware and hardware components and their interactions leading to high quality designs that balance performance/power.

• Outstanding interpersonal skills, cross-group and cross-culture collaboration.

• Self-starter with demonstrated ability to perform in a high paced product development environment.

• Capable of managing a great level of ambiguity and minimal direction to extract relevant goals while driving to completion.

• Willing to travel internationally up to 10%.

Electrical Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $133,600 - $256,800 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 $173,200 - $282,200 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

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