Microsoft Principal Firmware Engineer 

United States, Washington 

444626867

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. To achieve this goal, the

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python

  • OR equivalent experience

• 6+ years experience in CPU Server Architectures such as Intel, AMD & ARM

Other Requirements:

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to, the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with working from early concept of Silicon on Chip (SoC) Architecture and design to shipping final product.
• The successful candidate should have experience with some or all of the following: Trusted Firmware (TF-A ) Hafnium, Unified Extensible Firmware Interface ( UEFI), Standalone ManagementMode (MM) Peripheral Component Interconnect Express- PCI-E), memory interfaces, Reliability Availability Serviceability (RAS) , OS primitives, memory management, scheduling, interrupts, threading.
• Experience with Implementation of Hardware/Firmware Security (H/F Security) and firmware enablement primitives
• Experience working with multiple teams on Root Cause Analysis (RCA) with 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 Architecting, Designing and Delivering on new Data Center class technologies across the entire platform.
• UEFI design experience resulting in solving complex HW/FW interface issues.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:

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. To achieve this goal, the Firmware COE as part of SCHIE organization is instrumental in defining and delivering operational measures of success for software/firmware stack for Microsoft Azure, improving the quality, delivery, scale and sustainability related to Microsoft Cloud hardware.

• The Firmware CoE is responsible for Hardware/Firmware (HW/FW) for Azure Infrastructure. We are working on the next generation HW/FW for server, G eneral Purpose / Graphics Processing (GP-GPU) s ilicon 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 Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) firmware architecture and design to work on lighting up these various technologies as each team produces their part.
• You have demonstrated the capability of leading firmware development through product development cycles for new and sustaining products.
• You have experience with UEFI architecture, x86 or ARM firmware flows, Reliability Availability Serviceability (RAS) design flows and system bring up activities. Have demonstrated knack for root causing issues at the intersection of multiple subsystems across firmware and hardware.