Microsoft Silicon and Cloud Hardware Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE) is the team behind Microsoft’s expanding Cloud Infrastructure and responsible for powering Microsoft’s “Intelligent Cloud” mission. SCHIE delivers the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's over 200 online businesses including Bing, MSN, Office 365, Xbox Live, Skype, OneDrive and the Microsoft Azure platform globally with our server and data center infrastructure, security and compliance, operations, globalization, and manageability solutions. Our focus is on smart growth, high efficiency, and delivering a trusted experience to customers and partners worldwide and we are looking for passionate, high energy engineers to help achieve that mission. As Microsoft's cloud business continues to grow the ability to deploy new offerings and HW infrastructure on time, in high volume with high quality and lowest cost is of paramount importance.The FW CoE is responsible for HW/FW for Azure Infrastructure. We are working on the next generation HW/FW for server, silicon and rack infrastructure with a focus on innovation in firmware technology to secure Azure infrastructure for Microsoft and their customers.
We are looking for a highly motivated Principal Firmware Engineer with a background in Silicon design, firmware development, validation, and debug to work on lighting up the various features and technologies as each team produces their part. You must have experience with SoC Architecture and Design, Bring-Up of new silicon and platform, root causing issues at the intersection of multiple subsystems across firmware and hardware. #AzureHWJobs #SCHIE #SCHIEFWCOE
Responsibilities
- Architect and develop SoC validation firmware and framework solution that enable multiple teams like design verification, silicon validation, firmware development and manufacturing teams to test IP and SoC features.
- Enable debug features and integration and enabling of debug infrastructure.
- Lead and drive root cause analysis of complex silicon issue debug spanning RTL and firmware.
- Technically Lead a small team of experience and high motivated engineers in delivering products
- Architecture and development of specific IP level firmware libraries .
- Defining the boot flow sequences for initial bring up (Silicon initialization, memory training..) and leading early silicon bring up and enabling of manufacturing .
- Collaborate with SoC architects to influence hardware features for usability , debuggability . Collaborating with Silicon validation teams to root cause hardware and firmware issues .
- Collaborate with cross Geo teams and drive program execution and deliver Products
Qualifications
- Doctorate in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 3+ years technical engineering experience
- OR Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience
- OR Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience
- OR equivalent experience.
- Firmware architect with 15+ years of industry experience with 5+ years in defining and driving the SoC architecture particularly server class SoC’s.
- Experience in SoC architecture particularly ARM based SoC micro architecture(ARM v8/v9), firmware design, design verification.
- Silicon bringup and post silicon validation Experience
- Experience in a few IP level silicon firmware library development (e.g PCIe, CXL, GIC, Interrupt controller, security processors, IOMMU, SMMU ) .
- SoC debug expertise and experience and experience in using tools like JTAG ARMDS, Lauterbach TRACE32
- Experience in ATE environment and initial wafer bring up is desirable and a good knowledge of Platform, security (trust Zones etc)firmware
- Understanding of OS Linux Windows driver development is desirable
- Experience in leading a small team of engineers is desirable
Firmware Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $142,800 - $274,800 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $188,000 - $304,200 per year.
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
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This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
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Skills Required
- Doctorate in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related AND 3+ years technical engineering experience
- Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related AND 6+ years technical engineering experience
- Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related AND 8+ years technical engineering experience
- Equivalent experience in lieu of degree
- Experience with SoC architecture and design, silicon bring-up, firmware development, validation, and cross-subsystem root-cause debugging
- Experience architecting and developing SoC validation firmware, debug infrastructure, boot flow sequences, and enabling manufacturing bring-up
- Ability to meet Microsoft Cloud Background Check and related security screening requirements
- Firmware architect with 15+ years industry experience and 5+ years defining server-class SoC architecture
- Experience in ARM-based SoC microarchitecture (ARM v8/v9), firmware design, and design verification
- Experience in silicon bring-up and post-silicon validation
- Experience developing IP-level firmware libraries (PCIe, CXL, GIC, interrupt controllers, security processors, IOMMU, SMMU)
- SoC debug experience and familiarity with tools like JTAG, ARMDS, Lauterbach TRACE32
- Experience with ATE environment, wafer bring-up, and platform security (TrustZones) firmware
- Understanding of Linux and Windows driver development
- Experience leading a small team of engineers
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