Company Overview

Microsoft SCHIE supports Microsoft's "intelligent Cloud" mission, providing infrastructure and technologies for over 200 online businesses, including Azure, Office 365, Xbox Live, and more.
The team focuses on smart growth, high efficiency, and delivering a trusted experience to customers worldwide.
Job Title. Principal Firmware Engineer

Responsibilities

• Involvement in all phases of product development, from microarchitecture design through firmware architecture and development.
• Leading a team of Firmware/Software Engineers through various development phases.
• I am driving the architecture, design, and development of sub-systems, including UEFI firmware development for low-level hardware interfaces.
• Responsible for firmware-level debugging as part of end-to-end firmware development and debugging.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline with 6+ years of technical engineering experience or equivalent.
• 12+ years of professional experience in designing and developing Embedded Software and Firmware solutions.
• Experience in UEFI design resulting in solving complex Hardware/Firmware interface issues.
• Experience working with multiple teams on root-cause-analysis with troubleshooting and debugging skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Additional qualifications such as a Master's Degree and extended years of technical engineering experience.
• Specific experience with peripherals (PCIe, memory interfaces), OS primitives, memory management, scheduling, interrupts, and threading.
• Experience in the implementation of Hardware/Firmware Security and firmware enablement primitives.
• In-depth knowledge of platform initialization, board support package integration, low-level drivers for various peripherals, and other relevant technologies.
• Experience with architecting, designing, and delivering new Data Center class technologies.

Equal Opportunity Employer

• Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer, committed to diversity and inclusion.
• All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to various characteristics, such as age, ancestry, citizenship, gender identity or expression, genetic information, disability, etc.
• The company encourages applicants with disabilities to request accommodations during the application process.

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