Principal Firmware Engineer

Microsoft•Redmond, WA

10d•$142,800 - $304,200

About The Position

Microsoft Silicon and Cloud Hardware 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, 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. 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. 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 Silicon design, firmware development, validation, and debug to work on lighting up the various features and technologies as each team produces their part. You must have experience with SoC Architecture and Design, Bring-Up of new silicon and platform, 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.
This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Nice To Haves

Firmware architect with 15+ years of industry experience with 5+ years in defining and driving the SoC architecture particularly server class SoC’s.
Experience in SoC architecture particularly ARM based SoC micro architecture(ARM v8/v9), firmware design, design verification.
Silicon bringup and post silicon validation Experience
Experience in a few IP level silicon firmware library development (e.g PCIe, CXL, GIC, Interrupt controller, security processors, IOMMU, SMMU ) .
SoC debug expertise and experience and experience in using tools like JTAG ARMDS, Lauterbach TRACE32
Experience in ATE environment and initial wafer bring up is desirable and a good knowledge of Platform, security (trust Zones etc)firmware
Understanding of OS Linux Windows driver development is desirable
Experience in leading a small team of engineers is desirable

Responsibilities

Architect and develop SoC validation firmware and framework solution that enable multiple teams like design verification, silicon validation, firmware development and manufacturing teams to test IP and SoC features.
Enable debug features and integration and enabling of debug infrastructure.
Lead and drive root cause analysis of complex silicon issue debug spanning RTL and firmware.
Technically Lead a small team of experience and high motivated engineers in delivering products
Architecture and development of specific IP level firmware libraries .
Defining the boot flow sequences for initial bring up (Silicon initialization, memory training..) and leading early silicon bring up and enabling of manufacturing .
Collaborate with SoC architects to influence hardware features for usability , debuggability .
Collaborating with Silicon validation teams to root cause hardware and firmware issues .
Collaborate with cross Geo teams and drive program execution and deliver Products