Sr. Firmware Engineer

Quick Facts

• Role: Sr. Firmware Engineer

Description

Develop and maintain firmware and driver solutions for Microsoft custom silicon platforms (e.g., MAIA and COBALT) deployed across the Azure fleet. Own work across the full product lifecycle from architecture and design through silicon bring-up, validation, manufacturing, and productization. Lead firmware architecture reviews and hardware-software integration to enable new silicon capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain firmware and driver solutions for custom silicon platforms

• Contribute across architecture/design through silicon bring-up, validation, manufacturing, and productization

• Design firmware components such as driver interfaces, SoC bring-up system libraries, low-level hardware protocols, and platform features

• Participate in firmware architecture and technical design reviews

• Drive hardware-software integration for new silicon capabilities and faster feature deployment

• Collaborate with silicon, board electrical, and hardware engineering teams

• Work with operating system and software platform teams to integrate and deploy new technologies across the Azure fleet

Requirements

• Advanced degree (Doctorate/Master’s/Bachelor’s) in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field with the corresponding years of engineering experience; or equivalent experience

• 5+ years of professional experience designing and developing firmware solutions

• Experience with UEFI; ARM Trusted Firmware (ARM-TF) is a plus

• 5+ years of experience in C, C++, and Rust delivering production-quality software

• 5+ years of experience with two or more interfaces/protocols: PCIe, I2C, SPI, USB, UART

• Ability to meet Microsoft/customer/government security screening requirements (including passing the Microsoft Cloud Background Check)

Benefits

• Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation (per Microsoft pay and benefits information).