Firmware Engineer II

Microsoft•Redmond, WA

1d•$102,100 - $219,200

About The Position

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. We are seeking an accomplished Firmware Engineer II to join a team of talented engineers in BIOS/UEFI development team. This team is responsible for delivering robust, high-quality BIOS/UEFI solutions across the entire Microsoft Cloud fleet and managing them throughout their lifecycle. In this role, you will actively collaborate with internal Microsoft teams as well as external partners, including silicon vendors, to ensure our BIOS/UEFI solutions are secure, highly available, and continuously innovative. At Microsoft, we immensely value culture, mentorship, and act as One Team. This is an opportunity to leverage your technical expertise and grow your existing experience in an innovative and highly collaborative environment where the results of your work will matter to Microsoft and Microsoft’s customers.

Requirements

Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 1+ year(s) technical engineering experience OR Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 2+ years technical engineering experience OR equivalent experience.
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role.
Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
Proficient in developing low-level FW or SW for HW platforms, including FW, BIOS, UEFI, EDK2, BMC, among others.
Proven and demonstrable skill in C (Programming)
Ability to debug and resolve issues spanning multiple subsystems.
Advanced problem-solving abilities and strategic thinking, with the capacity to develop and monitor success metrics for designated areas.
Understanding of Intel or AMD or ARM server architecture
Ability to read hardware schematics
Familiar with PCIe, I2C, SPI, USB and UART buses
Open to new technical challenges and able to deal with ambiguity

Nice To Haves

5+ years of professional experience designing developing BIOS/UEFI firmware solutions
Experience in Cloud scale problem solving is preferred
UEFI/BIOS development experience as applied to Server Products is a plus

Responsibilities

Contributing to all phases of product development, from design through manufacturing and productization.
Contributing to the architecture and design of various firmware components, including driver interface, system libraries needed for SoC bring-up, protocol and feature development of low-level hardware.
Overseeing the development of new hardware SKUs, ensuring compliance with BIOS/UEFI requirements, adherence to development schedules, comprehensive validation, and the successful execution of rollout plans for AI-driven, next-generation compute, and high-memory SKUs.
Managing requirements, and feature delivery through agile execution, including sprints, backlogs, and milestones, while leading continuous planning efforts.
Defining, communicating, and establishing vendor-agnostic requirements for innovative hardware solutions powering Azure, engaging actively with internal and external partners such as silicon vendors, ODMs, and OEMs worldwide.