Microsoft Wants More Chip Engineers as Custom Silicon Ambitions Grow
The company is hiring in the backyard of many of its chipmaker partners
Microsoft’s Surface Pro X hybrid tablet and laptop
Photographer: Mark Kauzlarich/BloombergOn the same day Microsoft Corp. showed off some custom processors in its new Surface products in New York, the company was trying to hire even more chip designers to fuel its growing microprocessor-design ambitions.
The company held a recruiting event Wednesday in Austin, Texas, seeking experienced “custom CPU/SoC design” engineers for jobs in Raleigh, North Carolina; Sunnyvale, California; and Fort Collins, Colorado, in addition to its headquarters in Redmond, Washington, according to a post on Microsoft-owned LinkedIn. SoC stands for system on a chip and it’s a single piece of silicon with multiple chips — widely used for smartphones.