Senior Physical Design CAD - Construction

Microsoft
United States, Oregon, Hillsboro
Jul 26, 2025
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, high-energy engineers to help achieve that mission. In this role, you'll be supporting silicon design teams by developing and deploying the latest construction physical design tools, flows, and methodology on cutting edge technology. You'll work with EDA vendors to deploy the most up-to-date methods to our design teams while also driving resolution of critical issues. You'll focus on the backend physical design implementation while still collaborating with Front End RTL teams and Back End verification teams to ensure a smooth RTL2GDS process. ResponsibilitiesHelp develop and support EDA construction flows across multiple projects Work with external EDA silicon vendors to validate latest tool features and resolve gating issues Develop methodology that can be adopted by design teams for efficient execution Architect code in a scalable and sustainable manner Drive convergence of flows and methods of physical design execution Collaborate with silicon signoff verification teams to ensure alignment in expectations between constructed database and verification techniques Collaborate with front end teams to ensure high quality RTL handoff