Microsoft · 7 hours ago
Firmware Engineer II
Redmond, WA
Full-time
Onsite
Entry, Mid Level
$101K/yr - $199K/yr
2+ years expMicrosoft is a leading technology company responsible for powering its Intelligent Cloud mission. They are seeking a Firmware Engineer II to develop foundational firmware for Azure's custom silicon programs, contributing to the infrastructure that supports Microsoft's advanced compute workloads.
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Responsibilities
Develop firmware for telemetry systems, platform initialization, and board support packages across Azure’s custom silicon programs
Design and implement low-level inter-core messaging services and support SSIO interfaces such as I3C, I2C, UART, SPI, and others
Implement power control loops, memory and cache management, boot-ordering and other initialization flows and Infrastructure chips
Own and evolve the RTOS and driver frameworks, ensuring high performance, reliability, and scalability
Build and maintain OS-level performance infrastructure and debugging tools to accelerate development and root-cause analysis
Collaborate with silicon, hardware, and software teams to deliver secure, production-grade firmware that powers Azure’s infrastructure
Take ownership of a major technical area and drive its roadmap, contributing to long-term strategy and mentoring others
Qualification
Required
Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 1+ year(s) technical engineering experience OR Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 2+ years technical engineering experience OR equivalent experience
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter
Preferred
Proficient in C/C++
Experience debugging and resolving issues spanning multiple subsystems in the embedded ecosystem
Experience with one or more of the following: platform initialization, low level device drivers for peripherals/protocols such as I3C, I2C, SPI, USB, UARTs as well as Memory Management, Scheduling, Interrupts or multi-threading
Experience with board‑level bring‑up and lab debug (e.g., JTAG/SWD/GDB, UART/I²C/SPI/GPIO)
Experience with SoC bring-up, OS primitives, memory management, and multi-threading
Experience with reliability/availability/serviceability (RAS) scenarios (error injection, crashdump)
Experience in working in pre-silicon environments
Company
Microsoft
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