Principal Firmware Engineer

Microsoft Cloud Hardware Infrastructure Engineering (CHIE) is the team behind Microsoft's expanding Cloud Infrastructure and responsible for powering Microsoft's "Intelligent Cloud" mission. CHIE 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.
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"?
The FW CoE 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.
We are looking for a highly motivated Principal Firmware Engineer with a background in Firmware and system debug to work on lighting up these various technologies as each team produces their part. You must have experience with SoC Architecture and Design, bring up of SoC, root causing issues at the intersection of multiple subsystems across firmware and hardware.
Open to 100% remote in the U.S.
Travel up to 25%
#azurehwjobsResponsibilities

• You will be involved with all phases of product development, from microarchitecture design through firmware architecture and development.
• At the design phase, you will be part of a team driving the architecture, design and development of the various sub-systems including firmware development of low-level hardware interfaces and define flows for boot flows of ASIC.
• You will be responsible for firmware level debug as part of end to end firmware development and debug.

QualificationsRequired Qualifications:

• BS in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent industry experience.
• 15+ years of professional experience designing, developing Embedded Software solutions.
• Experience with working from early concept of SoC Architecture and design to shipping final product.
• Experience working with multiple teams on Root cause analysis with strong troubleshooting and debugging skills.
• Experience with Platform initialization, Board support package integration, low level drivers for peripherals such as PCIe, I2C, eMMC, SPI, USB, UARTs as well as Memory Management, Scheduling, Interrupts and multi-threading.
• Experience with writing Bring up/Verification strategy documents.
• Knowledge of SoC Security protocols.

Hardware Engineering IC6 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $158,500 - $276,600 per year.
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There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $202,800 - $304,200 per year.
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