Principal Firmware Engineer

Quick Facts

• Title: Principal Firmware Engineer

• Role focus: Lead firmware architecture and silicon firmware library development for AI accelerators and cloud silicon platforms.

Description

Lead the design, development, debugging, and deployment of next-generation silicon firmware libraries for AI accelerators and cloud silicon platforms. Drive firmware architecture across compute domains and the Accelerator Network Controller (ANC), including SoC infrastructure initialization flows. Provide hands-on technical leadership, mentoring, and technical root-cause/verification planning across hardware, validation, security, and platform software teams.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive firmware architecture for silicon firmware libraries (HBM, ANC, Compute, and SoC infrastructure subsystems)

• Influence microarchitecture decisions with silicon architects during specification and design

• Lead firmware strategy across multiple silicon generations and platform programs

• Provide technical leadership across firmware, hardware, validation, and software organizations

• Develop silicon firmware libraries in C/C++ for compute engines, ANC subsystem, DMA engines, and other IP blocks

• Develop scalable, maintainable firmware frameworks and APIs

• Lead first-silicon bring-up activities

• Drive root-cause analysis for firmware, hardware, performance, and validation issues

• Define firmware verification requirements and test plans

• Lead cross-team initiatives spanning firmware, silicon architecture, software, security, and system integration

• Create engineering alignment across geographically distributed teams

• Represent firmware technical direction in leadership and architecture reviews

• Mentor engineers; develop engineering best practices, coding standards, and architectural review processes

Requirements

• Doctorate in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 3+ years technical engineering experience, OR Master’s with 6+ years, OR Bachelor’s with 8+ years (or equivalent experience)

• Ability to meet security screening requirements (including passing the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter)

Benefits

• Competitive base pay range (U.S.): USD $142,800 - $274,800 per year

• Bay Area/NYC base pay range: USD $188,000 - $304,200 per year

• Eligible for benefits and other compensation (role-dependent)

Other

• Position open for at least 5 days; applications accepted on an ongoing basis until filled