Principal Firmware Engineering Manager
About The Position
The Principal Firmware Engineering Manager will lead engineers in Microsoft’s Silicon Engineering Solutions and Cloud Hardware Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE) Firmware Center of Excellence, which develops foundational firmware powering Microsoft Cloud infrastructure. The role focuses on next-generation hardware and firmware for server, silicon, and rack infrastructure, with an emphasis on firmware technology that secures Azure infrastructure and scales across the Azure Fleet. The position participates in all phases of product development, from microarchitecture design through firmware architecture, development, diagnostics, and debugging. It includes helping drive subsystem architecture and design, developing low-level hardware interfaces, defining ASIC boot flows, and owning firmware-level diagnostics and debug as part of end-to-end firmware development.
Requirements
- Doctorate in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field and 7+ years of technical engineering experience; or a master’s degree in one of these fields and 10+ years; or a bachelor’s degree in one of these fields and 12+ years; or equivalent experience.
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including passing the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire or transfer and every two years thereafter.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with peripherals such as PCIe and memory interfaces, OS primitives, memory management, scheduling, interrupts, and threading.
- Experience implementing hardware/firmware security primitives.
- Experience with platform initialization, board support package integration, and low-level peripheral drivers such as PCIe, I2C, eMMC, SPI, USB, and UART, as well as memory management, scheduling, interrupts, and multithreading.
- Experience architecting, designing, and delivering new data-center-class technologies across an entire platform.
- Experience working with external partner teams to drive design and architectural changes.
- Experience driving organizational changes in product design and architecture.
- 10+ years of professional experience designing and developing embedded software solutions.
- Experience working from early SoC architecture and concept through shipment of the final product.
- Experience driving firmware architecture solutions, with detailed troubleshooting and debugging skills.
Responsibilities
- Participate in all phases of product development, from microarchitecture design through firmware architecture, development, and diagnostics.
- Help drive the architecture, design, and development of subsystems.
- Develop firmware for low-level hardware interfaces.
- Define ASIC boot flows.
- Own firmware-level diagnostics and debugging as part of end-to-end firmware development and debug.
- Lead a team of engineers.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
