About the position
The Microsoft Silicon Engineering Solutions and Cloud Hardware Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE) team is responsible for developing and delivering the hardware and firmware that is responsible for powering Microsoft's 'Intelligent Cloud' mission. From cloud game streaming to data services, the hardware we design is contributing to the success of millions of customers. The SCHIE team is looking for a Principal Software Engineer. We in SCHIE's Firmware Center of Excellence create the foundational firmware that powers the Microsoft Cloud. Our firmware lights up millions of servers and racks across the globe, enabling users to do everything from running blogs to crunching through powerful AI algorithms. We're a growing team of diverse, talented & passionate engineers inventing and delivering technology to light up the 'world's computer!' We believe that a robust firmware infrastructure leads to incredibly powerful computing experiences-if you believe this too, we need you! 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. This role will give you an opportunity to design and architect the systems and servers of tomorrow that will scale in the Azure Fleet.
Responsibilities
- Involved with all phases of product development, from microarchitecture design through firmware architecture and development.
- Part of a team driving the architecture, design and development of various sub-systems including firmware development of low-level hardware interfaces.
- Define flows for boot flows of ASIC.
- Responsible for firmware level debug as part of end-to-end firmware development and debug.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
- 6+ years of professional experience designing and developing Embedded Software solutions.
- Proficient track record of building, deploying, and optimizing large-scale AI/ML models in real-world applications.
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements.
Nice-to-haves
- Experience with working from early concept of SoC Architecture and design to shipping final product.
- Experience driving firmware architecture solutions with detailed troubleshooting and debugging skills.
- Solid data engineering and analysis experience.
- Experience working in collaborative teams and cross-group efforts.
- Understanding of hardware and devices, or familiarity with OS and Firmware health and error reporting.
- Experience with some or all the following: Peripherals such as PCIe, memory interfaces, OS primitives, memory management, scheduling, interrupts, threading.
- Experience with Implementation of Hardware/Firmware Security primitives.
- Experience with Platform initialization, Board support package integration, low level drivers for peripherals such as PCIe, I2C, eMMC, SPI, USB, UARTs as well as Memory Management, Scheduling, Interrupts and multi-threading.
- Experience with Architecting, Designing and delivering on new Data Center class technologies across the entire platform.
- Experience working with external partner teams to drive design and architectural changes.
Benefits
- Base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $139,900 - $274,800 per year.
- Base pay range for this role in the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area is USD $188,000 - $304,200 per year.
- Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
