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About the Role

Microsoft Silicon and Cloud Hardware Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE) is responsible for powering Microsoft’s “Intelligent Cloud” mission by delivering core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's online businesses. The Firmware/Software Center of Excellence (FW/SW CoE) team focuses on the next generation of server, silicon, and rack infrastructure, innovating in firmware technology to secure Azure infrastructure.

Responsibilities

Design and implement low-level SoC firmware and silicon firmware libraries.
Own firmware for one or more IPs/subsystems from architecture through production.
Work with silicon architects to define firmware/HW interfaces and initialization flows.
Develop reusable, modular firmware APIs and frameworks.
Develop and debug boot, initialization, reset, error handling and recovery flows.
Participate in pre-silicon validation and first-silicon bring-up.
Perform system-level debugging across firmware, hardware and software boundaries.
Analyze complex failures using logs, telemetry, register state and hardware debug tools.
Work closely with architecture, RTL/DV, validation, security, platform firmware and driver teams.
Drive issues independently from reproduction through RCA and resolution.
Improve firmware quality through unit tests, validation automation and reusable test infrastructure.
Mentor engineers and influence technical design within the feature/subsystem area.

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.
Must pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Skills

SoC Architecture and Design
Bring-Up of new silicon and platform
Root causing issues at the intersection of multiple subsystems across firmware and hardware
Firmware design
Firmware development
Validation
Debug
Microarchitecture (Arm and x86)
Design verification
Management and user cores
Security IPs and flows
Boot sequences
IP-level silicon firmware library development
Pre-silicon validation using simulation and emulation platforms (FPGA, ZeBu, Palladium)
Silicon bring-up
Post-silicon validation
SoC debug
JTAG
Arm Development Studio (Arm DS)
Lauterbach TRACE32
ATE (automated test equipment) environments
Initial wafer bring-up
Platform and security firmware (Arm TrustZone)
Operating system driver development for Linux and Windows

Experience Level

7–10 years of industry experience in firmware design, development and productization, preferably including several years on server-class platforms.

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 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 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, high energy engineers to help achieve that mission.
As Microsoft's cloud business continues to grow the ability to deploy new offerings and HW infrastructure on time, in high volume with high quality and lowest cost is of paramount importance.
The FW/SW CoE team is responsible for HW/FW for Azure Infrastructure.
We are working on the next generation HW/FW for server, silicon and rack infrastructure with a focus on innovation in firmware technology to secure Azure infrastructure for Microsoft and their customers.

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.