Senior FPGA/Silicon Design Engineer

Senior FPGA/Silicon Design Engineer

United States, Washington, Redmond

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Job description

Company and benefits

Job number

200061417

Date posted

Oct 13, 2026

Work site 3 days / week in-office

Travel Less than 25%

Profession Hardware Engineering

Discipline Silicon Engineering

Role type Individual Contributor

Employment type Full-Time

Overview

Microsoft Silicon, Cloud Hardware, and Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE) is the team behind Microsoft’s expanding Cloud Infrastructure and responsible for powering Microsoft’s “Intelligent Cloud” mission. SCHIE 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 a trusted experience to customers and partners worldwide and we are looking for engineers to help achieve that mission.

The Compute Silicon & Manufacturing Engineering (CSME) organization within SCHIE is responsible for design, development, manufacturing and packaging of Microsoft's state-of-the-art computer chips, notably the Azure Cobalt. Our solutions provide sustainable strategic advantages to Microsoft and enable our customers to achieve more.

As Microsoft's cloud business continues to grow the ability to deploy new offerings and hardware infrastructure on time, in high volume with high quality and lowest cost is of paramount importance. To achieve this goal, the Shared and Custom IP & Silicon (SCIPS) team is instrumental in defining and delivering operational measures of success for hardware manufacturing, improving the planning process, quality, delivery, scale and sustainability related to Microsoft cloud hardware. We are looking for engineers with a dedicated passion for customer focused solutions, insight and industry knowledge to envision and implement future technical solutions that will manage and optimize Cloud infrastructure.

We are looking for a Senior FPGA/Silicon Design Engineer to work on leading edge custom IP development as part of the SCIPS (Semi-Custom and Central IP Silicon) team within CSME (Compute Silicon & Manufacturing Engineering), the team responsible for Azure Cobalt chips. The candidate should excel at collaborating with other engineers to solve complex technical challenges.

SCHIE CSME SCIPS

Responsibilities

The candidate for this position will be expected and able to complete the following responsibilities:

• Own and lead FPGA design environment efforts for rapid IP prototyping and design validation including root-cause analysis of complex system issues.
• Own development of custom IP RTL from microarchitecture through RTL implementation, verification, and post-silicon validation.
• Collaborate with architecture, SoC, firmware, verification, and physical design teams to deliver high-quality FPGA and IP solutions.
• Develop high-performance, power-efficient RTL designs and drive PPA optimization across the design lifecycle.
• Lead design signoff activities including CDC, RDC, LINT, and timing closure
• Mentor engineers and champion design excellence through reviews, automation, and continuous methodology improvements.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Doctorate in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 1+ year(s) technical engineering