New 
Principal Timing/STA Engineer
 Microsoft | |
 United States, California, Mountain View | |
 Jul 13, 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 Principal Timing/STA Engineer to join the team.
Responsibilities Lead the STA methodology development and execution to meet timing closure targets for complex semiconductor designs. Collaborate with design, implementation, and physical design teams to define and drive timing constraints and methodology. Conduct timing analysis and sign-off for critical paths, setup/hold violations, and multi-mode/multi-corner scenarios. Develop and implement timing closure strategies to meet performance, power, and area targets. Work closely with cross-functional teams to resolve timing issues, optimize design performance, and meet project milestones. Stay current with industry trends and emerging technologies to continuously improve STA methodologies and processes. | |