The Role
Design, architect and lead development of server and rack firmware for Azure infrastructure. Hands-on work from microarchitecture to firmware, low-level drivers, UEFI, SoC and hardware integration while leading engineering teams to deliver scalable cloud firmware solutions.
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Overview
Responsibilities
Qualifications
If you are passionate about working on cutting edge new technology and looking to build a team ground up, with cultural values that put collaboration, growth mindset and people first, then this is the role for you.
The Azure Firmware Center of Excellence team is instrumental in defining and delivering operational success for Azure that exceeds our customer’s expectations. Our technology and innovations are globally available foundation of Azure Control plane that hosts services with the scale of Azure Compute / Bing / Skype / Azure Store / SQL, host millions of multiplayer gaming sessions and large-scale computational solutions.
Our teams are responsible for Firmware development of server, silicon and rack infrastructure design with a focus on innovation for Azure infrastructure for Microsoft and their customers.
If you are a good engineering Leader with passion for building highly reliable, scalable distributed systems; If you want hands-on services architecture experience and like to produce impact across a large number of systems; if you have a penchant to learn and utilize your broad skill set to produce good customer impact; then this opportunity is for you - Join the Azure Firmware Center of Excellence and help us envision and build technical solutions to power Azure.
This is expected to be a hands on role, where you will have the opportunity to build and lead your team of extremely talented engineers to deliver innovation at scale and own delivery of product to Azure datacenters.
You should have proficient C programing skills, with experience with SoC Architecture and Design, writing low level drivers, root causing issues at the intersection of multiple subsystems across firmware and hardware.
Responsibilities
- Lead architecture, design, development and deployment of innovative firmware and Cloud firmware features that deliver business value and contribute to scale our business growth.
- Operate and influence a team of high performing engineers with the ability to motivate, build Firmware solutions for the cloud
- You will be involved with all phases of product development, from microarchitecture design through firmware architecture and development.
- Build solid engineering design plans, with bottoms up schedule, drive trade off, design decisions to meet top level schedule on time and with high quality
Qualifications
- 5 to 10 years of professional experience designing, developing large scale Embedded Software solutions
- Experience with working from early concept of X86/X64/ARM Architecture and design to shipping final product
- AI/ML experience in hardware TPU,Nitro, Smart Nics is an added advantage
- MS in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent industry experience
- Proven and demonstrable skills in C, C++ or Rust
- Good Problem solving, debugging, and troubleshooting skills, advanced design, and development skills
- Experienced with low level firmware development including bare metal firmware for peripherals such as GPU,CPLD,TPM PCIe, I2C, eMMC, SPI, USB, UARTs as well as Memory Management, Scheduling, Interrupts and multi-threading
- Hands on Expertise in UEFI platform development.
- Expertise in CPU architectures (2Socket,4socket,8socket,16 socket) – Intel or AMD or ARM .
- Expertise in Platform Server Architecture (CPU, Memory, PCI-e, NVMe, SSD/SAS, Secureboot, UEFI, BMC,GPUs, InfiniBand, Hardware interfaces like MUX/I2C/SPI, schematics, TPM)
Are you passionate about working on cutting edge new technology in Control Plane Platform management with a team that embodies the growth mindset? Are you hoping to join an organization which is built on a mission “To empower every person and organization on this planet to achieve more”? Then this is the role for you. The Azure Cloud Hardware Infrastructure division (SCHIE) is responsible for Firmware design and development of Server and Rack Infrastructure Firmware for Microsoft Online Services.
This position is open Across multiple locations - Hyderabad/Bangalore/Noida
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.
This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.
Skills Required
- Proficient C programming skills
- Experience with SoC architecture and design
- Experience writing low-level drivers and root causing cross-subsystem firmware/hardware issues
- 5 to 10 years professional experience designing and developing large scale embedded software solutions
- Experience with x86/x64/ARM architecture from early concept to shipping product
- AI/ML experience in hardware (TPU, Nitro, SmartNICs)
- MS in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent industry experience
- Proven skills in C, C++ or Rust
- Strong debugging, troubleshooting, advanced design and development skills
- Experience with bare metal firmware for peripherals (GPU, CPLD, TPM, PCIe, I2C, eMMC, SPI, USB, UART) and OS-level concerns (memory management, scheduling, interrupts, multithreading)
- Hands-on expertise in UEFI platform development
- Expertise in CPU architectures (2/4/8/16-socket) — Intel, AMD or ARM
- Expertise in platform server architecture (CPU, Memory, PCI-e, NVMe, SSD/SAS, Secure Boot, UEFI, BMC, GPUs, InfiniBand, MUX/I2C/SPI, schematics, TPM)
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