Senior Firmware Engineer

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 Silicon and Cloud Hardware Infrastructure Engineering Firmware Development team is responsible for design and development of Server and Rack Infrastructure Firmware for Microsoft's online services, and we're looking for a talented Senior Firmware Engineer to join our team. We work closely with Microsoft product groups, industry partners and researchers to architect and develop server hardware solutions that meet the requirements for our cloud services platforms at the lowest possible cost of ownership (TCO). We need to be always learning and insatiably curious. 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It starts with a belief that everyone can grow and develop; that potential is nurtured, not pre-determined; and that anyone can change their mindset.Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyondResponsibilitiesThe role specifically would be to work primarily on writing the firmware for the embedded controllers that exist as part of a larger SoC system, these includes features such as inter core communication, subsystem initialization, telemetry (polling for power consumption, temperatures of various on and off die components, and any detected hardware faults/issues), firmware tracing.Firmware also includes communications over standard embedded buses (i2c, i3c, SPI, UART, etc.) between components in a larger system. A successful member of this team will understand RTOS, how to work with GPIOs, interrupts/ISRs, use of pre-silicon (from software-based simulations, FPGA implementations, and gate-level emulation systems) and post-silicon environments, as well as familiarity with debugging low level embedded systems via ad hoc and formalized methods such as using JTAG/Lauterbach debuggers.The firmware work includes sustaining existing products and leverage them to build new code and runtime frameworks for the next generation chips. The primary language we use is C, with additional tooling in scripting languages. Additional responsibilities include creating test and automation code built in python and in frameworks such as ROBOT for test automation. The position will own significant feature areas and be able to refine requirements based on datasheets and other documentation.Candidate should be comfortable reading schematics and familiar with good software design practice and principles (coupling, cohesion, SOLID, etc) and the concept of TDD (test driven development).

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QualificationsRequired Qualifications:

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C, C#, Java, JavaScript, or PythonOR equivalent experience.

Experience with hardware debugging environments.

Experience with software development cycle and requirement gathering.

Experience with embedded communications protocols (SPI, I2C, UART, etc.)

Other Requirements: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. Desired Qualifications:

Collaboration (aligned with team, across teams).

Passionate about coaching team members and helping them grow.

Wants new technological challenges and able to deal with ambiguity.

Experience problem solving, debugging troubleshooting skills, advanced design, and development skills.

5 Years Professional experience in Embedded firmware development.

Experience with building firmware features based on silicon data sheets.

Experience developing tests for firmware.

Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $112,000 - $218,400 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 $145,800 - $238,600 per year.Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-payMicrosoft will accept applications for the role until April 15, 2024.#azurehwjobs   #SCHIE   #schiefwcoe Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, 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 and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html) .