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Senior Physical Design Engineer
 Microsoft | |
 United States, California, Mountain View | |
 Oct 16, 2025 | |
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OverviewMicrosoft 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 passionate engineers to help achieve that mission. 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 AISIE 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 seasoned 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 Senior Physical Design Engineer to join the team.
ResponsibilitiesResponsible for Physical Design tasks at block, sub-chip, and/or full-chip level incl. design planning, synthesis, placement, clock tree synthesis, custom clocking, static timing analysis, physical verification, IR drop & EM check and formal equivalence checks You are expected to be able to work with limited direction, have keen attention to detail, and be able to provide crisp status of progress, issues, and risks on the program to the management team. Occasional travel may be required. Responsible for delivering Physical design implementation flow and automation for execution efficiency Evaluation of recommendations of different technology, IPs, and vendor selection for the best PPA of products To deliver best in class place and route (PNR) strategies especially on congestion and timing challenging blocks | |