Senior Firmware Engineer

Overview

Microsoft Silicon and Cloud Hardware 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, Skype, 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. As Microsoft's cloud business continues to grow the ability to deploy new offerings and HW infrastructure on time, in high volume with high quality and lowest cost is of paramount importance.

The FW/SW CoE team is responsible for HW/FW for Azure Infrastructure. We are working on the next generation HW/FW for server, silicon and rack infrastructure with a focus on innovation in firmware technology to secure Azure infrastructure for Microsoft and their customers.

We are looking for a highly motivated background in Silicon design, firmware development, validation, and debug to work on lighting up the various features and technologies as each team produces their part. You must have experience with SoC Architecture and Design, Bring-Up of new silicon and platform, root causing issues at the intersection of multiple subsystems across firmware and hardware.

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Responsibilities

• Design and implement low-level SoC firmware and silicon firmware libraries.
• Own firmware for one or more IPs/subsystems from architecture through production.
• Work with silicon architects to define firmware/HW interfaces and initialization flows.
• Develop reusable, modular firmware APIs and frameworks.
• Develop and debug boot, initialization, reset, error handling and recovery flows.
• Participate in pre-silicon validation and first-silicon bring-up.
• Perform system-level debugging across firmware, hardware and software boundaries.
• Analyze complex failures using logs, telemetry, register state and hardware debug tools.
• Work closely with architecture, RTL/DV, validation, security, platform firmware and driver teams.
• Drive issues independently from reproduction through RCA and resolution.
• Improve firmware quality through unit tests, validation automation and reusable test infrastructure.
• Mentor engineers and influence technical design within the feature/subsystem area.

Required Qualifications

• Doctorate in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 1+ year(s) technical engineering experience
• OR Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience
• OR Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 5+ 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

7–10 years of industry experience in firmware design, development and productization, preferably including several years on server-class platforms.

Strong understanding of SoC architecture, particularly server-class SoCs.

Experience implementing microarchitecture (Arm and x86), firmware design and design verification.

Deep expertise in one or more of these domains: management and user cores, security IPs and flows, boot sequences, and IP-level silicon firmware library development.

Strong experience in pre-silicon validation using simulation and emulation platforms such as FPGA, ZeBu and Palladium.

Hands-on experience with silicon bring-up and post-silicon validation.

Strong SoC debug expertise, including required hands-on experience with tools such as JTAG, Arm Development Studio (Arm DS) and Lauterbach TRACE32.

Experience in ATE (automated test equipment) environments and initial wafer bring-up.

Knowledge of platform and security firmware, such as Arm TrustZone.

Good understanding of operating system driver development for Linux and Windows.

Experience leading a small team of engineers.

Firmware Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 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 $160,200 - $261,000 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

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances.

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