Principal Silicon IP Program Managaer

Microsoft 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.

The Compute Silicon & Manufacturing Engineering (CSME) organization within SCHIE is responsible for design, development, manufacturing and packaging of Microsoft's state of the art custom computer chips, notably the Azure Cobalt. Our solutions provide sustainable strategic advantage to Microsoft and enable our customers to achieve more.

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 Hardware, Infrastructure Management, and Fundamentals Engineering (HIFE) 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 Silicon IP PM to join the team.

Responsibilities

• Strategic IP Roadmap & Portfolio Management:Drive IP roadmap planning across multiple IP tracks. Ensure cataloging and validation of legacy IPs for reuse and traceability. Drive end-to-end process consistency across IP blocks for customer engagement, IP release management, IP milestones, and IP support & maintenance.
• Executive Communication & Status Reporting:Lead regular meetings with technical leads to compile high-level status updates. Prepare and present executive summaries articulating risks, milestones, and dependencies. Translate technical progress into business-relevant insights for leadership.
• Data Analysis & Insight Generation:Interpret dashboard metrics and trend data to identify risks and opportunities. Summarize complex technical data into actionable insights for decision-making. Monitor milestone health using tools like DV regression dashboards and synthesis timing reports.
• Deliverables & Partnership Agreements:Track deliverables and timelines defined during the Partnership Agreement phase. Ensure alignment across cross-functional teams on customer requirements and delivery goals.
• Risk Mitigation & Milestone Management:Identify schedule buffers and proactively manage risks to milestone delivery, adjusting tracking cadence as needed. Coordinate across design, DV, firmware, and platform teams to resolve blockers. Escalate issues and initiate parallel paths when needed (e.g., firmware support, vendor SOW delays).
• Financial Oversight & Vendor Coordination:Track IP license needs, vendor dependencies, and lab resources. Manage budget alignment and vendor SOWs, ensuring timely closure and compliance.

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• Doctorate in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 3+ years technical engineering experience
• 3+ years experience with stakeholder management, keeping deliverables on track.
• OR Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience
• OR Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience
• OR equivalent experience.

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 of technical engineering experience.
• Competent interpersonal skills and the ability to motivate, inspire, and lead cross-functional teams with a high degree of independence and success.
• Experience negotiating and working with industry Silicon IP vendors through the entire lifecycle from definition to post-silicon.
• SOC or IP design experience across advanced technology nodes.
• Demonstrated hands-on technical leadership such as creating bottom-up schedules, coordinating work across a team, driving IP milestone closure, or solving cross-team technical problems.
• Experience with IP quality assurance and IP milestone acceptance criteria.
• Experienced with technical IP portfolio management and strategic planning.
• Data summarization, analytics, and visualization skills using Power BI, Excel (Query/Pivot); nice to have: basic SQL or Python for data wrangling.
• Program systems experience: Azure DevOps/Jira (queries/boards), SharePoint/Lists for catalog metadata, Confluence/OneNote for specs and decision logs.

Silicon Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $139,900 - $274,800 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 $188,000 - $304,200 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 Sept 29th 2025.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.  We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

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