Microsoft Silicon, Cloud Hardware, and 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, Teams, 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 hardware infrastructure on time, in high volume with high quality and lowest cost is of paramount importance. To achieve this goal, the Hardware, Infrastructure Management, and Fundamentals Engineering (HIFE) team is instrumental in defining and delivering operational measures of success for hardware manufacturing, improving the planning process, quality, delivery, scale and sustainability related to Microsoft cloud hardware. We are looking for seasoned engineers with a dedicated passion for customer focused solutions, insight and industry knowledge to envision and implement future technical solutions that will manage and optimize the Cloud infrastructure.

　　We are looking for a Senior SoC Firmware Engineer to join the team.

　　Responsibilities

　　The silicon computing development team is seeking passionate, driven and intellectually curious engineers to join our SoC firmware team covering firmware architecture, development, integration, and quality assurance, for our projects.  This new team will be involved in numerous projects within Microsoft developing firmware for custom silicon on a diverse set of systems.  We are responsible for delivering cutting-edge, custom SoC designs that can perform complex and high-performance functions in the most efficient manner.  In this high impact role on the team, you will be responsible to:

　　Develop, document, review, and maintain low-level SoC firmware code in partnership with hardware and software teams.

　　Analyze, architect, and develop firmware based on SoC specifications.

　　Cross multiple firmware disciplines and domains during the development cycle.

　　Perform firmware integration and releases to partners and stakeholders.

　　Automate tasks and enable validating partners with maximum code and collateral sharing.

　　Participate and role-model an Agile development and execution culture emphasizing quality, team accountability, continuous integration, improvement and deployment.

　　Coordinate priorities and activities with engineering stakeholders to deliver committed milestones.

　　Collaborate with highly energetic cross functional team members with respect and with One Microsoft mentality to establish synergies.

　　Collaborate with IP providers where necessary.

　　Delight your customers who receive your deliverable by providing high quality functional firmware on schedule and with professional integrity.

　　Challenge the status quo with growth mindset.

　　DevOps process , strategies, tools, and execution.

　　Qualifications

　　BS/MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or Computer Engineering with 8+ years industry experience.

　　Background and understanding of Computer Architecture, embedded systems, off-the-shelf RTOS, and validation/quality principles.

　　Good understanding of modern software development such as object-oriented design and verifiable interface design and firmware runtime.

　　Good verbal and written communication skills.

　　Additional Preferred one or more of these Requirements:

　　Experience in low level firmware and microcode development cycle.

　　Experience developing firmware for standard hardware interfaces (SPI, DDR, USB, PCIe, I2C).

　　Experience using industry standard hardware debug tools (TLAs, Oscilloscopes, Multimeters).

　　Experience with firmware side bring-up of new silicon.

　　Applied understanding of firmware and hardware contracts.

　　Ability to comprehend the software stack from high level code to representative assembler instruction streams at runtime.

　　Ability to write scripts using Perl, Ruby, Python etc.

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