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 Firmware Engineer 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. We are seeking a Firmware Engineer to join our team within SCHIE, where we build the foundational firmware that powers Microsoft's Azure infrastructure-including its cutting-edge AI accelerator 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 AI workloads.

At Microsoft, our mission-to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more-guides how we partner with customers to deliver trusted, impactful solutions. With a growth mindset culture, we innovate responsibly and measure success by shared progress-people, teams, and customers. Join us to do meaningful work that changes the world and helps shape what's next for everyone.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, debug, test and release firmware for Azure's custom AI silicon programs, including developing and testing firmware on pre-silicon platforms and post-silicon platforms

• Collaborate with silicon, hardware, architecture and software/firmware teams to deliver secure, production-grade firmware

• Participate and drive SoC bring up and troubleshooting

• Participate and support silicon's Data Center deployment and operation

• Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field

• OR equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Proficient in embedded RUST, RUST RTOS's and toolchains

• Experience with SoC bring-up, OS primitives, and multi-threading

• Experience in working in pre-silicon environments

Microsoft is a global technology company headquartered in Redmond, Washington. Our mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. We develop, license, and support a wide range of software products, services, and devices that help individuals and businesses realize their full potential.

Our flagship products include the Microsoft 365 productivity cloud, Windows operating system, Azure cloud platform, and Dynamics 365 business applications. We are also a leader in areas such as artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, developer tools, and gaming through Xbox and Game Pass.

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