Firmware Engineer II (BIOS/UEFI)

Quick Facts

• Role: Firmware Engineer II (BIOS/UEFI)

Description

You will develop and maintain robust BIOS/UEFI firmware for server systems used across a large cloud infrastructure fleet. You’ll contribute across the product lifecycle (design through manufacturing and productization), working with internal teams and external partners to deliver secure, highly available, and innovative firmware. You will also support new hardware SKU development and manage requirements and feature delivery via agile planning, validation, and rollout.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to architecture and design of firmware components (driver interfaces, system libraries for SoC bring-up, low-level protocol and feature development)

• Develop, code, debug, and troubleshoot BIOS/UEFI firmware for server platforms

• Support SoC bring-up, bootloaders, platform initialization, and board support package porting

• Work with peripherals and interfaces such as PCIe, NVMe, I2C, SPI, USB, and UART

• Partner on new hardware SKU development to ensure compliance with BIOS/UEFI requirements, validation, and rollout execution for next-generation compute SKUs

• Manage requirements and feature delivery using agile execution (sprints, backlogs, milestones) and continuous planning

• Define and communicate vendor-agnostic firmware requirements for Azure hardware solutions, collaborating with silicon vendors, ODMs, and OEMs

Requirements

• Master’s degree (or equivalent) in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field with 1+ year technical engineering experience; OR Bachelor’s degree with 2+ years technical engineering experience; OR equivalent experience

• Ability to pass Microsoft Cloud Background Check and meet ongoing security screening requirements

Benefits

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