Principal Firmware Engineering Manager

Quick Facts

• Role: Principal Firmware Engineering Manager (Diagnostics)

• Focus: Firmware architecture, development, and diagnostics for server/silicon/rack infrastructure powering cloud services

• Scope: End-to-end firmware development from microarchitecture design through boot flows, low-level hardware interfaces, and diagnostics/debug

Description

You will lead firmware engineering efforts to design, architect, and develop foundational firmware for next-generation data center platform infrastructure supporting Azure at scale. This role includes ownership of firmware-level diagnostics and debugging as part of end-to-end firmware development. You will also help advance platform security by implementing and troubleshooting firmware security primitives.

Responsibilities

• Contribute across product development phases: microarchitecture design, firmware architecture, firmware development, and diagnostics.

• Drive architecture, design, and development of firmware subsystems, including low-level hardware interface firmware.

• Define and deliver boot flows for ASIC.

• Lead firmware-level diagnostics and debugging throughout end-to-end firmware development.

Requirements

• Doctorate with 7+ years technical engineering experience, or Master’s with 10+ years, or Bachelor’s with 12+ years (or equivalent experience).

• Meet Microsoft/customer/government security screening requirements, including passing the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years.

• Preferred: experience with peripherals (e.g., PCIe, memory interfaces), OS primitives, memory management, scheduling, interrupts, and threading.

• Preferred: experience implementing hardware/firmware security primitives.

• Preferred: platform initialization, board support package (BSP) integration, and low-level drivers (e.g., PCIe, I2C, eMMC, SPI, USB, UART), plus memory management/scheduling/interrupts/multi-threading.

• Preferred: architecting and delivering new data center class technologies across the platform; working with external partners on design/architectural changes; and driving organizational change.

• Preferred: 10+ years designing/developing embedded software; experience from early SoC architecture concepts through product shipment; strong firmware architecture with troubleshooting/debugging skills.

Benefits

• Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.

• Typical U.S. base pay range: USD $165,600–$296,400/year; other ranges apply for specific locations (e.g., San Francisco Bay area and NYC metro).