Principal Firmware Engineer

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 its server and data center infrastructure, security and compliance, operations, globalization, and manageability solutions. Our focus is on smart growth, high efficiency, and delivering trusted experience to customers and partners worldwide and we are looking for a Principal Firmware Engineer to help achieve that mission.   

Are you passionate about working on cutting edge technology in a team that embodies the growth mindset? Are you hoping to join an organization which is built on a mission “To empower every person and organization on this planet to achieve more”?   

The Firmware Center of Excellence is responsible for Hardware/Firmware for Azure Infrastructure. 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 are looking for a Principal Firmware Engineer with a background in Firmware development in embedded systems. 

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.

Responsibilities

• You will be involved with all phases of product development including pre-silicon, post-silicon and platform deployment in datacentre.   
• You will drive, define, implement, and lead execution of firmware development.  
• Deeply collaborate with silicon-teams, Firmware-architects, and program management for day-to-days operations as well as for long term roadmap improvements by feeding back key learnings.  
• You will contribute to the architecture and design of various firmware components, including driver interfaces (Peripheral Component Interconnect Express(PCIe), serial peripheral interface(SPI), I2C, I3C), system libraries needed for System on Chip(SoC) bring-up, protocol and feature development of low-level hardware.  
• Work with our partner team from varied disciplines, understand subject matter problems and identify opportunities, build out consensus with the right solution.  
• You will mentor, guide, and help peers and other team members.  
• You will identify and address inefficiencies and gaps in architecture, development, execution, etc.  
• Be a good advocate for engineering culture among the team.  
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including hardware architects and engineers, software developers, validation & integration, and product managers to define firmware requirements and specifications.  
• Stay up to date with industry trends and advancements in cloud firmware technologies and provide recommendations for improvement.  
• Work closely with Microsoft product groups, industry partners and researchers to architect and develop server hardware solutions that meet the requirements for our cloud services platforms at the lowest possible cost of ownership (TCO).
• Other
  • Embody our Culture and Values  

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or electrical engineering, or related technical discipline AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++ or Rust and Python
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 4+ years of experience architecting or implementing industry-standard security protocols, including secure communications, cryptographic algorithms, public key infrastructure, key management technologies. 

Other Requirements:

• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government secu