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About the Role
The firmware architecture team within SCHIE is responsible for defining the firmware that allows complex SoCs like the Cobalt general purpose server processor and Maia AI accelerator to operate safely, reliably, securely, and at the lowest possible total cost of ownership. We work with our partners in the silicon and Azure datacenter teams to help shape the overall platforms, relying on both industry standards and unique features to ensure a compelling product for our datacenter customers. A firmware architect in the team is given the opportunity to both work with some of the most cutting edge silicon being produced, while shaping and designing the firmware on those platforms to maximize availability, performance, and more.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and implement firmware solutions for embedded systems.
- Contribute to all phases of product development, from initial design and architecture through manufacturing and productization.
- Define and develop firmware architecture for key systems, ensuring scalability, reliability, and performance.
- Collaborate closely with hardware engineering teams to ensure seamless integration between hardware and firmware.
- Design, develop, and maintain firmware components, including driver interfaces, system libraries, and low-level hardware interfaces.
- Support SoC bring-up, platform initialization, bootloader development, and board support package (BSP) porting.
- Develop and optimize firmware for hardware interfaces and peripherals, including PCIe, NVMe, I2C, SPI, USB, and UART.
- Contribute to internal fabric, protocol development, and low-level hardware feature implementation.
- Implement and optimize operating system primitives, including memory management, scheduling, interrupts, and threading.
- Debug, troubleshoot, and resolve complex firmware and hardware integration issues.
- Provide technical leadership in firmware design, development, testing, and validation.
- Partner with cross-functional engineering teams to ensure successful system integration, product readiness, and deployment.
Requirements
- Doctorate in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 3+ years technical engineering experience OR Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience OR Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 8+ 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.
- Must provide proof of citizenship or residency for export control regulations assessment.
- Doctorate in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 5+ years technical engineering experience with coding OR Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding OR Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 12+ years technical engineering experience with coding OR equivalent experience.
- 1+ year(s) experience working on or leading projects from beginning-to-end.
- Experience writing architecture documents for systems implemented by other teams.
- Experience with SoC bring-up and internal workings, such as internal fabric, power management, reset flows, and secure operational flows.
- Strong collaboration skills, including coordinating with both inside the team and outside stakeholders.
Skills
- Rust
Experience Level
- Firmware Engineering IC5
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 $142,800 - $274,800 per year (U.S. typical base pay)
- USD $188,000 - $304,200 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.
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.