Principal Firmware Engineer

Microsoft•Redmond, WA

About The Position

The Azure Platform Security and Confidentiality team is responsible for Firmware development of server, silicon and rack infrastructure design with a focus on innovation in security technology to secure Azure infrastructure for Microsoft and their customers. We are looking for a Principal Firmware Engineer with a background in security to join our team. You must have proficient C programing skills, with experience writing low level drivers, root causing issues at the intersection of multiple subsystems across firmware and hardware.

Requirements

Doctorate in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 3+ years technical engineering experience OR Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience OR Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 8+ 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 C programing skills
Experience writing low level drivers
Experience root causing issues at the intersection of multiple subsystems across firmware and hardware

Nice To Haves

12+ years of professional experience designing and developing software solutions.
C/C++, RUST programming skills
Experienced with security and embedded software/firmware development.
Knowledge in encryption ciphers and security protocols
Debugging capabilities and demonstrated experience to resolve issues spanning multiple subsystems.
Experience with platform initialization, Board support package porting, low level drivers for peripherals such as PCIe, I2C, eMMC, SPI, USB, UARTs as well as Memory Management, Scheduling, Interrupts and multi-threading
Coding skills, debugging and troubleshooting abilities.
Experience with some or all the following: driver development, Linux driver initialization, peripherals such as PCIe, memory interfaces.
OS primitives, memory management, scheduling, interrupts, threading.
Experience with penetration testing

Responsibilities

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 security sub-systems including firmware development of low-level hardware interfaces.
Responsible for evaluating third party components security design to ensure they meet Azure’s requirements for Platform Security