Firmware Architect

15 hours ago

Bengaluru, India Microsoft Full time

Are you passionate about working on cutting edge new technology in Control Plane Platform management with a team that embodies the growth mindset? Are you hoping to join an organization which is built on a mission “To empower every person and organization on this planet to achieve more”? Then this is the role for you. The Azure Cloud Hardware Infrastructure division (SCHIE) is responsible for Firmware design and development of Server and Rack Infrastructure Firmware for Microsoft Online Services.

We are looking for a highly motivated Firmware architect, preferably with a background in Control Plane SW development and security concepts. 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.

**Responsibilities**:

- You will be 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 features for platform management sub-systems.
- You will be working closely with Hardware teams to ensure Hardware integrates well with the firmware.
- You will contribute to the design of various firmware components including driver interface, system libraries need for SoC bring-up, protocol and feature development for low-level hardware.
- You will be working on Control Plane management functionalities such as - IPMI, Redfish, Telemetry, Firmware updates, etc.
- You will be responsible for designing new features and functionalities for Control Plane Firmware and will be driving the same to the deploy on to Azure fleet.

**Qualifications**:

- 12+ years of professional experience designing, developing, architecting software solutions.
- Experience with Linux uboot bootloaders and bootloader design to boot from external media such as eMMC, SDCard
- Experience in design and development of Platform SW development technologies like - IPMI, Redfish, Thermal Control, Power capping, PCIe card telemetry, etc
- Experience in design and development of Firmware update protocols like - MCTP, PLDM
- Experience with Platform management security protocols like - SPDM
- Experience with board bring up, low level drivers for peripherals such as PCIe, I2C, SPI, UARTs, NCSI, Ethernet, eMMC
- Knowledge/Experience with Security technologies such as Encryption ciphers, Cryptographic Algorithms like Hash functions, Symmetric/Asymmetric key algorithms
- Having experience of OpenBMC environment is a plus.
- Ability to debug and resolve issues spanning multiple subsystems.
- Excellent C/C++ programming skills

**Preferred Qualifications**:

- Experience with Platform initialization, Board support package porting, low level drivers for peripherals such as PCIe, I2C, eMMC, SPI, UARTs as well as Memory Management, Scheduling, Interrupts and multi-threading.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

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