Senior Firmware Engineer

Overview

Microsoft Silicon, Cloud Hardware, and 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, Teams, 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 engineers to help achieve that mission.

Are you passionate about working on cutting edge new 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”?

We are working on the next generation Hardware/Firmware for server, silicon, and rack infrastructure of Cobalt/Maia systems with a focus on innovation in firmware technology to secure Azure infrastructure for Microsoft and their customers. 

We are looking for a highly motivated Senior Engineer who is passionate about system level thinking, deep debugging, and scalable validation, and who thrives in a cross-functional, fast paced environment spanning silicon, firmware, GPU, OS, and manufacturing.

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Responsibilities

As a Senior Firmware Engineer in the Firmware System Engineering team, you will own platform‑level firmware integration and validation across SoC firmware, GPU, BIOS, BMC, and OS interactions. You will contribute directly to early silicon bring‑up, de‑risking of firmware releases, customer issue debug, and continuous improvement of validation strategies, tooling, and automation—building on the foundations already established by the team.

• You will be involved with all phases of product development including pre-silicon, post-silicon, and platform deployment in the datacenter.
• You will collaborate with platform architects, firmware architects, program management and component dev teams for understanding the technical depth of the new features and defining the Test plans/cases, validation Frameworks/Tools/methodology for End-to-end feature readiness
• You will define the Soc and platform validation methodology in terms of required test cases, faster debugging/triaging, reducing manual efforts, with enhanced coverage of concurrent/deployment scenarios
• You will be involved in debugging and solving complex hardware/firmware interface issues.
• You will own coordination, Integration, validation (including validation environment), and debugging of system software comprising of different domains within server architecture (such as SoC FWs, BIOS, BMC etc.)
• You will architect and/or submit requirements to define stimulus, test content, and frameworks that will be utilized to conduct testing and establish coverage.
• You will identify and address inefficiencies and gaps in architecture, testing, execution, etc.
• You will mentor, guide, and help peers and other team members.
• Ability to see system level “big picture” to validate that the integrated firmware/system software aligns to architectural goals of product.
  
  

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or higher in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electronics Engineering, or similar.
• 8+ years of working experience in large scale system design & architecture, development, testing, and release and performance tuning.
• Strong problem solving, debugging, and troubleshooting skills.
• Hands on experience in programming in Python or C or C++
• Experience with Platform initialization, Board support package (UEFI/U-Boot), integration, low level drivers for peripherals such as PCIe, I2C, eMMC, SPI, USB, UARTs as well as Memory Management, Scheduling, Interrupts, and multi-threading.
• Excellent debugging and troubleshooting skills with the aim to become point-of-contact for platform level issues. Ensure systematic closure of issues for subsequent releases.
• Demonstrated experience of leading big initiatives spanning multiple teams and organizations and leveraging deep domain expertise to influence product roadmap.
• Passionate about exploring and deploying noble methods to improve coverage, debugging, and efficiency of our FW releases.
  
  

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.

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. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.

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