Microsoft Principal Firmware Engineer 

United States, Washington 

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Strategic Planning and Architecture(SPARC) team within Microsoft’s Azure Hardware Systems & Infrastructure (AHSI) organization and be a part of the organization behind Microsoft’s expanding Cloud Infrastructure and responsible for powering Microsoft’s “Intelligent Cloud” mission.

Microsoft delivers more than 200 online services to more than one billion individuals worldwide and AHSI is the team behind our expanding cloud infrastructure. We deliver the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's cloud businesses including Microsoft Azure, Bing, MSN, Office 365, OneDrive, Skype, Teams and Xbox Live.

The SPARC organization manages Azure’s hardware roadmap from architecture concept through production for all of Microsoft’s current and future on-line services. The SPARC organization is seeking a Principal Firmware Engineer for the architecture, design and development of security accelerators and Root of Trust firmware. The ideal candidate would havea solid background in security protocols and secure hardware design.You will be involved with all phases of product development, from secure silicon design through manufacturing and supply chain, and into high scale deployment.At the design phase, you will work withbe responsible forthe silicon security architecture and design of low-level hardware accelerators.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

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 of professional experience designing, systems development and bare metal development.

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.

Preferred/Additional Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent industry experience.
• Proven and demonstrable skill in Rust, C, C++.
• Experience with GIT.
• Experienced withROM, Bootloader, and embedded runtime development.
• Experience in working in pre siliconenvironments.
• Familiar withI3C, I2C,SPI, SPI-FLASH.
• Familiarity with standard Cryptography algorithms.
• Familiarity with secureboots,attestation,recovery.
• Ability to debug and resolve issues spanning multiplesubsystems.
• Problem solving,debugging,and troubleshooting skills, advanced design and developmentskills.

Software Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $133,600 - $256,800 per year. 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 $173,200 - $282,200 per year.Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:

• Be involved with all phases of productarchitecture,design,and implementation ofsecurity accelerators and SOC.
• Help define the architecture and design of bootloader and embedded kernel. responsibleforfirmware development, including initialization code, boot loader development, drivers, protocols, and feature development of low-level embedded systems.
• Coding, debugging and troubleshooting.
• Device firmware development andsecure bootflows.
• Firmware development, board support package development, peripherals such as PCIe, I2C/I3C, SPI,SPI-FLASH, UARTs.
• Real-time OS and OS primitives, memory management, scheduling, interrupts, and threading.
• Embody our