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Principal Silicon Architect

Microsoft


Job Location:

Mountain View, CA - USA

Yearly Salary: USD 142800 - 274800
Posted: 6 October 2026 (Yesterday)
Application Deadline: 3 January 2027
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Overview

Microsoft Silicon Cloud Hardware and Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE) is the team behind Microsofts expanding Cloud Infrastructure and responsible for powering Microsofts Intelligent Cloud mission. SCHIE delivers the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsofts 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 passionate engineers to help achieve that mission.

As Microsofts 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 AI Silicon Engineering 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 experienced 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 the Cloud infrastructure.

We are looking for a Principal Silicon Architect to join the team.

#SCHIE



Responsibilities
  • Provide technical leadership throughout all phases of ASIC and SoC development with primary focus on early architecture definition and specification of Network-on-Chip (NoC) memory/interconnect subsystems for high-performance AI and compute SoCs.

  • Define system-level address maps memory hierarchy and SoC connectivity. Translate product performance objectives into scalable NoC memory and data movement architectures.

  • Drive technical evaluations and provide recommendations for third-party IP silicon technologies and vendor solutions balancing performance power area schedule and risk considerations.

  • Partner with performance modeling and analysis teams to define performance requirements develop architectural models and identify system bottlenecks early in the design cycle.

  • Collaborate closely with hardware firmware software and system architecture teams to ensure architectural alignment and successful feature integration.

  • Guide design and verification teams throughout development ensuring implementation fidelity to architectural intent and requirements.

  • Support pre-silicon validation post-silicon bring-up and performance characterization activities to ensure delivered features meet functional and performance goals.

  • Drive cross-functional technical reviews resolve complex architectural issues and provide leadership on critical design tradeoffs and system-level decisions.



Qualifications

Required qualifications

  • Doctorate in Electrical Engineering Computer Engineering Computer Science or related field AND 3 years technical engineering experience
  • OR Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering Computer Engineering Computer Science or related field AND 6 years technical engineering experience
  • OR Bachelors Degree in Electrical Engineering Computer Engineering Computer Science or related field AND 8 years technical engineering experience
  • OR equivalent experience.

Other Requirements:
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.
This role will require access to information that is controlled for export under export control regulations potentially under the U.S. International Traffic in Arms Regulations or Export Administration Regulations the EU Dual Use Regulation and/or other export control regulations. As a condition of employment the successful candidate will be requiredto provide either proof of their country of citizenship or proof of their US. residency or other protected status(e.g. under 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)) for assessment of eligibility to access the export-controlled meet this legal requirement and as a condition of employment the successful candidates citizenship will be verified with a valid passport. Lawful permanent residents refugees and asylees may verify status using other documents where applicable.

Preferred qualifications

10 years of architecture and design experience in large scale SoC

Understanding of on-chip interconnect and memory hierarchy

Experience with SoC architecture

Track record of successful design of IPs and SoCs.

Experience in caches and cache coherency

Experience with SOC used in data center

Experience with Security die-to-die interconnect debug telemetry boot/reset RAS




Silicon Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $142800 - $274800 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 $188000 - $304200 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
position will be open for a minimum of 5 days with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.



Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. 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 with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process read more about requesting accommodations.


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