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About the Role

Microsoft Silicon, Cloud Hardware, and Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE) is seeking an accomplished Senior Firmware Engineer to provide strategic technical direction for the BIOS/UEFI development team. This team is responsible for delivering robust, high-quality BIOS/UEFI solutions across the Microsoft Cloud fleet and managing them throughout their lifecycle. You will collaborate with internal teams and external partners to ensure secure, highly available, and innovative BIOS/UEFI solutions. This role offers an opportunity to leverage your technical expertise and grow in an innovative and highly collaborative environment.

Responsibilities

Develop and maintain the BIOS/UEFI portfolio, supporting infrastructure across the Azure fleet.
Enhance Azure’s BIOS/UEFI security posture by ensuring timely resolutions of security vulnerabilities and keeping firmware components current.
Oversee the development of new hardware SKUs, ensuring compliance with BIOS/UEFI requirements, adherence to development schedules, validation, and rollout plans for AI-driven, next-generation compute, and high-memory SKUs.
Champion the implementation of new BIOS/UEFI requirements to optimize performance, telemetry, and diagnostics.
Manage requirements and feature delivery through agile execution, including sprints, backlogs, and milestones, while leading continuous planning efforts.
Define and establish vendor-agnostic requirements for innovative hardware solutions powering Azure, engaging with silicon vendors, ODMs, and OEMs.
Advance standardization efforts for hardware and firmware within Microsoft and the silicon industry.

Requirements

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.
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements, including Microsoft Cloud Background Check.

Skills

Developing low-level FW or SW for HW platforms, including FW, BIOS, UEFI, EDK2, BMC.
Leadership and cross-functional collaboration.
Managing the product lifecycle from project inception through release.
Operating effectively in ambiguous environments, balancing multiple priorities, and driving resolution with a commitment to quality.
Advanced problem-solving and strategic thinking.
Synthesizing information and communicating solutions to intricate technical challenges.
Firmware / software development, testing strategies, and requirements definition.
End-to-end CPU/SoC product development processes.
Data center hardware/software projects, from concept through deployment.
Software development using C, C++, C#, Python, etc.

Location

U.S.

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Senior
10+ years of experience with majority as a Technical Lead, or similar.
Over 7+ years of experience in software development using one or more programming languages such as C, C++, C#, Python, etc.

Education Level

Doctorate in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field
Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field
Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field

Salary/Compensations

USD $119,800 - $234,700 per year (U.S. typical base pay range)
USD $160,200 - $261,000 per year (San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area)

Benefits

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.

About the Company

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.
At Microsoft, we immensely value culture, mentorship, and act as One Team.

Equal Opportunity

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.