Senior Firmware Engineer

Do you want to be at the forefront of innovating the latest hardware designs to propel Microsoft’s cloud growth? Are you seeking a unique career opportunity that combines both technical capabilities, cross team collaboration, with business insight and strategy?

Join the Strategic Planning and Architecture (SPARC) team within Microsoft’s Azure Hardware Systems and Infrastructure (AHSI) organization and be a part of the organization behind Microsoft’s expanding Cloud Infrastructure and for powering Microsoft’s “Intelligent Cloud” mission. Microsoft delivers more than 200 online services to more than one billion individuals worldwide and AHSI is the team behind our expanding cloud infrastructure. We deliver the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's cloud businesses including Microsoft Azure, Bing, MSN, Office 365, OneDrive, Skype, Teams and Xbox Live. 

The SPARC organization manages Azure’s hardware roadmap from architecture concept through production for all of Microsoft’s current and future on-line services.  This role is for a highly motivated Senior Firmware Engineer with a solid background in security protocols and secure hardware design. You will be involved with all phases of product development, from secure silicon design through manufacturing and supply chain, and into high scale deployment.  At the design phase, you will work with the security threat model team, and be responsible for the silicon security architecture and design of low-level hardware accelerators. 

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond. In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day. 

In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day. 

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 4+ years of professional experience designing, developing RTOS and bare metal development.

Other Requirements

• 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.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Proven and demonstrable skill in Rust, C, C++.
• Experience with GIT.
• Experienced with ROM, Bootloader, and embedded runtime development.
• Experience in working in pre silicon environments.
• Familiar with PCIe, NVME, I3C, I2C, SPI, SPI-FLASH.
• Familiarity with standard Cryptography algorithms.
• Familiarity with secure boots, attestation, recovery.
• Ability to debug and resolve issues spanning multiple subsystems.
• Solid problem-solving, debugging, and troubleshooting skills, advanced design and development skills.

Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $117,200 - $229,200 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $153,600 - $250,200 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until October 10, 2024. 

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.  We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

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

#SPARC

• Design and development of security accelerators and Root of Trust firmware.
• Be involved with all phases of product architecture, design, and implementation of security accelerators and SOC.
• At the design phase, help define the architecture and design of bootloader and embedded kernel.
• Responsible for firmware development, including initialization code, boot loader development, drivers, protocols, and feature development of low-level embedded systems.
• Coding, debugging and troubleshooting.
• Device firmware development and secure boot flows.  
• The successful candidate should have experience with some or all the following:
• Firmware development, board support package development, peripherals such as PCIe, NVME, I2C/I3C, SPI, SPI-FLASH, UARTs. 
• Real-time OS and OS primitives, memory management, scheduling, interrupts, and threading.
• Embody our culture and values.