Senior Firmware Engineer

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Location:

United States, California, Mountain View Salary: USD $119,800 - $234,700 per year

Employment type:

Full-Time Work site: 3 days / week in-office

Role type:
Individual Contributor Travel:
Less than 25%
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Software Engineering Discipline:
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Microsoft Overview 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, One Drive, AI 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. 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 Firmware Center of Excellence is responsible for Hardware/Firmware for Azure Infrastructure. We are working on the next generation Hardware/Firmware for server, silicon and rack infrastructure with a focus on innovation in firmware technology to secure Azure infrastructure for Microsoft and their customers.

We are looking for highly motivated Senior Firmware Engineer with a background in Firmware architecture & design who can influence the partners and drive end to end (E2E) solutions from concept to production.

Experience with Platform & System-on-Chip (SoC) Architecture and Design, bring up of SoC, root causing issues at the intersection of multiple subsystems across firmware and hardware.

Responsibilities Design and architect firmware solutions for Cloud Hardware systems, focusing on system-level E2E design, debugging and troubleshooting.

Collaborate with cross-functional teams including hardware engineers, software developers, validation & integration, and product managers to define firmware requirements and specifications.

Develop and maintain firmware architecture, ensuring scalability, modularity, and maintainability.

Develop Security threat models for the platform working with vendors & Security teams.

Stay up-to-date with industry trends and advancements in firmware technologies, and provide recommendations for improvement.

Work closely with Microsoft product groups, industry partners and researchers to architect and develop server hardware solutions that meet the requirements for our cloud services platforms at the lowest possible cost of ownership.

Design and implement firmware modules to support various hardware interfaces, including USB vNIC, SPI, I2C, I3C, PCIe, and other related protocols.

Provide technical leadership and guidance to internal developers or external partners to deliver serviceable, reliable, and scalable solutions.
· Contribute to product vision and roadmap by bringing innovation to server manageability ecosystem. Perform system-level debugging and troubleshooting to identify and resolve hardware/firmware-related issues

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.  Other Requirements:

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements…