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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 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 a passionate Firmware Engineer II to help achieve that mission. As Microsoft's cloud business continues to grow the ability to deploy new offerings and HW infrastructure on time, in high volume with high quality and lowest cost is of paramount importance. We are seeking a Firmware Engineer II to join our team within SCHIE, where we build the foundational firmware that powers Microsoft’s Azure infrastructure—including its cutting-edge compute silicon. This role offers a unique opportunity to work across Azure’s custom silicon programs and contribute directly to the firmware stack that enables Microsoft’s most advanced compute workloads.
Job Responsibility:
Develop firmware for telemetry systems, platform initialization, and board support packages across Azure’s custom silicon programs
Design and implement low-level inter-core messaging services and support SSIO interfaces such as I3C, I2C, UART, SPI, and others
Implement power control loops, memory and cache management, boot-ordering and other initialization flows and Infrastructure chips
Own and evolve the RTOS and driver frameworks, ensuring high performance, reliability, and scalability
Build and maintain OS-level performance infrastructure and debugging tools to accelerate development and root-cause analysis
Collaborate with silicon, hardware, and software teams to deliver secure, production-grade firmware that powers Azure’s infrastructure
Take ownership of a major technical area and drive its roadmap, contributing to long-term strategy and mentoring others
Requirements:
Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 1+ year(s) technical engineering experience OR Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 2+ years technical engineering experience OR equivalent experience
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements
Proficient in C/C++
Experience debugging and resolving issues spanning multiple subsystems in the embedded ecosystem
Experience with one or more of the following: platform initialization, low level device drivers for peripherals/protocols such as I3C, I2C, SPI, USB, UARTs as well as Memory Management, Scheduling, Interrupts or multi-threading
Experience with board‑level bring‑up and lab debug (e.g., JTAG/SWD/GDB, UART/I²C/SPI/GPIO)
Experience with SoC bring-up, OS primitives, memory management, and multi-threading
Experience with reliability/availability/serviceability (RAS) scenarios (error injection, crashdump)