Principal Firmware Architect

About the role

The Microsoft Silicon Engineering Solutions and Cloud Hardware Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE) team is responsible for developing and delivering the hardware and firmware that powers Microsoft’s “Intelligent Cloud” mission. From cloud game streaming to data services, the hardware we design contributes to the success of millions of customers. Within SCHIE’s Firmware Center of Excellence we create the foundational firmware that powers the Microsoft Cloud, lighting up millions of servers and racks worldwide to enable everything from running blogs to crunching powerful AI algorithms. We are a growing team of diverse, talented & passionate engineers inventing and delivering technology to light up the “world’s computer!” We are working on the next generation hardware/firmware for server, silicon and rack infrastructure with a focus on innovation in firmware technology to secure Azure infrastructure for Microsoft and their customers. We believe that a robust firmware infrastructure leads to incredibly powerful computing experiences—if you believe this too, we need you! The SCHIE team is looking for a Principal Firmware Architect to join the team!

Responsibilities

Design through firmware architecture and development. At the design phase, you will be part of a team driving the architecture, design and development of the various sub-systems including firmware development of low-level hardware interfaces and define boot and management flows of ASIC and Rack infrastructure. You will be responsible for firmware level debug as part of end-to-end firmware development and debug.

Qualifications

• Doctorate in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 3+ years technical engineering experience
• Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience
• Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience
• 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.

Skills

• 12+ years of technical engineering experience
• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 10+ years of technical engineering experience
• Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 7+ years of technical engineering experience
• Doctorate degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 5+ years of technical engineering experience
• 10+ years of professional experience designing and developing Embedded Software solutions
• Experience with working from early concept of SoC Architecture and design to shipping final product
• Experience driving firmware architecture solutions with detailed troubleshooting and debugging skills
• Experience with Peripherals such as PCIe, memory interfaces, OS primitives, memory management, scheduling, interrupts, threading
• Experience with Implementation of Hardware/Firmware Security primitives
• Experience with Platform initialization, low level drivers for peripherals such as PCIe, I2C, eMMC, SPI, USB, UARTs as well as Memory Management, Scheduling, BMC and rack management
• Experience with Architecting, Designing and delivering on new Data Center class technologies across the entire platform

Pay

The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S