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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 seasoned 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 great 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 must 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.
Job Responsibility:
Lead architecture, design, development and deployment of innovative firmware and Cloud firmware features that deliver competitive advantage 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
Requirements:
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
MS in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent industry experience
Proven and demonstrable skills in C, C++ or Rust
Strong 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 is a must
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)
Nice to have:
AI/ML experience in hardware TPU, Nitro, Smart Nics is an added advantage