Director, Silicon Physical Design CAD

About the role

Microsoft Silicon, Cloud Hardware, and Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE) powers Microsoft's rapidly expanding cloud infrastructure and is a key enabler of the company's Intelligent Cloud vision. SCHIE delivers the foundational technologies and infrastructure that support more than 200 Microsoft online services, including Azure, Microsoft 365, Teams, OneDrive, Xbox Live, Bing, and MSN.

What you'll do

• Build and lead a world-class Physical Design Methodology & CAD team in India, fostering innovation, technical excellence, and a growth mindset
• Drive scalable RTL-to-GDSII flows, automation frameworks, and design closure solutions that enable predictable execution and first-pass silicon success
• Lead the AI-driven transformation of physical design methodologies, CAD flows, and engineering infrastructure by integrating advanced AI, machine learning
• Partner with engineering leaders across architecture, design, verification, infrastructure
• Champion measurable improvements in quality, productivity, compute efficiency, cost optimization, and engineering effectiveness across the silicon development lifecycle

What you need

• 12–22 yrs of experience
• VLSI
• Machine learning
• Azure
• Office 365
• B.Tech or B.E. or M.Tech

Good to have

• Python
• Perl