Senior Network Firmware Engineer

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 its server and data center infrastructure, security and compliance, operations, globalization, and manageability solutions. Our focus is on smart growth, high efficiency, and delivering trusted experience to customers and partners worldwide and we are looking for passionate engineers to help achieve that mission.    

Are you passionate about working on cutting edge technology in 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”?  

The Firmware Center of Excellence is responsible for Hardware/Firmware for Azure Infrastructure. We are working on the next generation Hardware/Firmware 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 highly motivated Software Engineer II with background in Firmware development in embedded systems.  

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Required Qualifications:

• Bachelors or higher in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electronics Engineering, or similar.
• 8+ years of professional experience in firmware development or embedded software development in a multicore environment or hardware and firmware security.
• 8+ years of Programming experience in C/C++/Rust 
• Solid understanding of computer architectures including processors, buses, and memories. 
• Demonstrated experience of hardware and firmware architecture, design, and coding for solutions at scale.
• Experience with SoC bring-up, with Security primitives, bootloaders, platform initialization, board support package development, peripherals such as I2C, SPI,UART  & Ethernet OS primitives, memory management, scheduling, interrupts and multi-threading.
• Should have worked on Ethernet MAC Layer and Network Transport Layer Protocols
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills. 
• Experience working with multiple teams on Root cause analysis, troubleshooting, and debugging skills resulting into solving complex Hardware/Firmware interface issues. 
• Self-motivated and able to work independently. 
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams. 

Preferred Qualifications:  

• Experience with working from early concept of Platform Architecture & design 
• Prior experience of working in one or more of the following areas:  

• • Experience with AI Accelerator Backend Network Controller firmware design and implementation.
  • Familiarity with management of network traffic and handling QOS configurations
  • Hardware accelerator software design and development 
  • CPU Execution modes, coherency, Memory management and protection, interrupt controller, virtualization, and other related concepts 
  • (RT)OS Scheduling and firmware development in multithreading SMP as well as in heterogeneous computing environment

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.

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. 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.

• You will develop, debug and maintain Backend network traffic flow for AI Accelerators such as MAIA
• You will contribute to the architecture and design of various firmware components, including driver interfaces, system libraries needed for SoC bring-up, secure platform design and development, protocol and feature development of low-level hardware. 
• You will be contributing to all phases of product development, from design through manufacturing and productization. 
• Perform system-level debugging and troubleshooting to identify and resolve complex hardware/firmware-related issues. 
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including hardware architects and engineers, software developers, validation & integration. 
• Stay up to date with industry trends and advancements in cloud firmware technologies and provide recommendations for improvement.