Senior Silicon Firmware Engineer

Microsoft Silicon, Cloud Hardware, and 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, Teams, OneDrive, and the Microsoft Azure platform globally with our server and data center 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 engineers to help achieve that mission.

As Microsoft's cloud business continues to grow the ability to deploy new offerings and hardware infrastructure on time, in high volume with high quality and lowest cost is of paramount importance. To achieve this goal, the Compute Silicon & Manufacturing Engineering team is instrumental in defining and delivering operational measures of success for hardware manufacturing, improving the planning process, quality, delivery, scale and sustainability related to Microsoft cloud hardware. We are looking for engineers with a dedicated passion for customer focused solutions, insight and industry knowledge to envision and implement future technical solutions that will manage and optimize the Cloud infrastructure.

We are looking for a Senior Silicon Firmware Engineer to join our silicon libraries firmware team covering firmware architecture, development, integration, and quality assurance, for our silicon projects. This team is involved in developing all silicon firmware for our cutting edge compute SoCs.

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.

Responsibilities:

• Develop, document, review, and maintain low-level silicon firmware code focusing on mesh interconnects, in partnership with architecture, design, design verification, and software teams.
• Work in pre-silicon environments and enable design verification workloads and collateral
• Analyze, architect, and develop firmware based on silicon specifications.
• Cross multiple firmware disciplines and domains during the development cycle.
• Perform firmware integration and releases to partners and stakeholders.
• Automate tasks and enable validating partners with maximum code and collateral sharing.
• Participate and role-model an Agile development and execution culture emphasizing quality, team accountability, continuous integration, improvement and deployment.
• Coordinate priorities and activities with engineering stakeholders to deliver committed milestones.
• Collaborate with highly energetic cross functional team members with respect and with One Microsoft mentality to establish synergies.
• Collaborate with IP providers where necessary.
• Delight your customers who receive your deliverable by providing high quality functional firmware on schedule and with professional integrity.
• Challenge the status quo with growth mindset.
• Embody our culture and values.

Qualifications:

Minimum Qualifications:

• Doctorate in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 1+ year(s) technical engineering experience
  • OR Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience
  • OR Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 5+ years technical engineering experience
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Background and understanding of Computer Architecture, embedded systems, off-the-shelf RTOS, and validation/quality principles.
• Experience in low level firmware and microcode development cycle.

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:

• BS/MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or Computer Engineering with 7+ years industry experience.
• Good understanding of modern software development such as object-oriented design and verifiable interface design and firmware runtime.
• Good verbal and written communication skills.
• Experience developing firmware for standard hardware interfaces (SPI, DDR, USB, PCIe, I2C).
• Experience Pre-/Post-Silicon environments and methodologies
• Experience with coherent and non-coherent interconnects a plus

Silicon Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 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 $158,400 - $258,000 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: US corporate pay information | Microsoft Careers

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until July 30th, 2025.

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 .

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