The Microsoft Silicon Engineering and Solutions Team is seeking a **Principal Front-End CAD Software Engineer** to be a technical leader for our central software team. This team drives state-of-the-art converged solutions, software tools, and automation to support silicon design areas such as RTL & VIP Design, Design Verification, Validation, DFT, Emulation, PD Handoff and IP integration.

**Responsibilities**

In the Principal CAD Software role, you will:

+ Be a leader in a central CAD Software team that develops a common tool stack to internal SoC and IP designs.

+ Lead software best practices within the CAD Software team.

+ Work in close collaboration with the CAD Hardware and Compute infrastructure teams.

+ Design software solutions and documentation that scale to a large user base.

+ Be the expert in your domain and act in partnership with the execution team.

+ Work with stakeholders across the Microsoft Silicon groups to collect software requirements.

+ Develop, enhance, and integrate CAD Flows and automation for organization-wide use.

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

**Qualifications**

**Required Qualifications:  **

+ 9+ years of related technical engineering experience

+ OR Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience or internship experience

+ OR Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience or internship experience

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

+ Experience writing software with industry standard languages like Python, TCL, Perl, C/C++ (Python preferred)

+ Experience owning and driving end to end software development life cycle for multiple complex software projects.

+ Knowledge of common programming paradigms (Object-Oriented, Functional, etc)

**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.

**Preferred Qualifications: **

+ 12+ years technical engineering experience

+ OR Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 9+ years technical engineering experience

+ OR Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience

+ OR Doctoratedegree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related fieldAND 4+ years technical engineering experience.

+ Understanding of software design patterns.

+ Well-rounded and familiar with silicon design Tools, Flows and Methodologies.

+ Experience with continuous integration systems.

+ Expertise in Computer Architecture, as well as CPU/SoC design principles.

+ Expertise in Azure environments, Azure Security and DevOps concepts

+ Exposure to Design and Verification execution and flows/infrastructure that is used

+ Leadership skills driving teams and working cross functionally

Silicon 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 6, 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) .