Principal Firmware Architect

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 centre 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 Silicon and Cloud Hardware Infrastructure Engineering Firmware Development team is responsible for design and development of Server and Rack Infrastructure Firmware for Microsoft's online services. We work closely with Microsoft product groups, industry partners and researchers to architect and develop server hardware solutions that meet the requirements for our cloud services platforms at the lowest possible total cost of ownership (TCO). We need to be always learning and insatiably curious. We need to be willing to lean into uncertainty, take risks and move quickly when we make mistakes, recognizing failure happens along the way to mastery. And we need to be open to the ideas of others, where the success of others does not diminish our own.

Our teams are responsible for Firmware development of server, silicon and rack infrastructure design with a focus on innovation for Azure infrastructure for Microsoft and their customers for MAIA and Cobalt product lines.

**Responsibilities**:
We are looking to hire a Principal Firmware Architect to join our team. This role is for a highly motivated Firmware Engineer with a background in Firmware development for embedded systems. You will be contributing to all phases of product development, from design through manufacturing and productization. You will create the firmware architecture for key systems and work closely with hardware teams to ensure hardware integrates well with the firmware. You will contribute to design of various firmware components, including driver interface, system libraries needed for SoC bring-up, protocol and feature development of low-level hardware.

**Qualifications**:
**Required Qualifications**:

- 12+ years of professional experience architecting, designing, developing software solutions.
- Bachelor’s or higher in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electronics Engineering, or similar.
- Experience with SoC bring-up, platform initialization, Board support package porting, low level drivers for peripherals such as PCIe, I2C, SPI, USB, UARTs etc as well as Memory Management, Scheduling, Interrupts, and multi-threading.
- Experience with PCIe driver/firmware development in virtualized environment.
- Experience with Device Drivers, U-Boot, TFA, UEFI and bootloader design to boot from external media such as eMMC, SDCard etc.
- Experience with RAS Management
- Ability to debug and resolve issues spanning multiple subsystems.
- Excellent C/C++ programming skills.

**Preferred Qualifications**:

- Experience with ARM Cortex-A/M/R.
- Experience with design and development of platform SW development technologies like - IPMI, Redfish, Thermal Control, Power capping, PCIe card telemetry, etc.
- Experience with design and development of firmware update protocols like - MCTP, PLDM.
- Experience with platform management security protocols like - SPDM.
- Collaboration (aligned with team, across teams).
- Experience with coaching team members and helping them grow.
- Wants new technological challenges and able to deal with ambiguity.
- Strong problem solving, debugging & troubleshooting skills, advanced design, and development skills.

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.