Sr. Software Engineer

Do you want to be at the forefront of innovating the latest hardware designs to propel Microsoft’s cloud growth? Are you seeking a unique career opportunity that combines technical capabilities, cross-team collaboration, with business insight and strategy?  

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 achieve 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. 

Join the Systems Planning and Architecture (SPARC) team within Microsoft’s Azure Hardware Systems and Infrastructure (AHSI) organization, the team behind Microsoft’s expanding Cloud Infrastructure and for powering Microsoft’s “Intelligent Cloud” mission. Microsoft delivers more than 200 online services to more than one billion individuals worldwide, and AHSI is the team behind our expanding cloud infrastructure. We deliver the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's cloud businesses including Microsoft Azure, Bing, MSN, Office 365, OneDrive, Skype, Teams and Xbox Live.    

The SPARC organization manages Azure’s hardware roadmap from architecture concept through production for all of Microsoft’s current and future on-line services.  This role is for a highly motivated Firmware Engineer with a strong background in driver design and development.   You will be involved with all phases of product development, from secure silicon design through manufacturing and supply chain, and into high scale deployment.  At the design phase, you will work with the security threat model team and be responsible for the silicon security architecture and design of low-level hardware accelerators.   

This role is for a highly motivated and experienced Firmware Engineer with a strong background in driver development, firmware development, silicon power-on. You will be involved with all phases of product development, from silicon design through firmware architecture and design, manufacturing, and productization. At the design phase, you will lead the driver and firmware architecture and design for accelerator chips and be part of the team responsible for firmware development, including driver interface, power-on, initialization, protocol and feature development of low-level hardware. 

The candidate should have strong coding skills, debugging and troubleshooting abilities, with experience with Linux or Windows driver development. The successful candidate should have experience with some or all of the following: firmware development, driver development, bootloaders, CPU initialization, board support package development, peripherals such as PCIe, NVMe, DMA, IOMMU, I2C, SPI, USB, UARTs. Understanding OS primitives, IO processing, memory management, scheduling, interrupt handling, and threading. 

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. 
• 4+ years of professional experience designing Linux or Windows driver development
• 5+ years of proven and demonstrated experience in C or C++. 
• 4+ years of experience with developing PCIe, USB, DMA, IOMMU etc. 

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 

• Solid understanding of operating systems concepts
• Experience with kernel-level programming or debugging
• Proficiency in at least one systems programming language (e.g., C, C++, Rust)