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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 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 Firmware Validation Engineer with a background in system integration, validation, and debug to work on lighting up the various features and technologies as each team produces their part.
Job Responsibility:
Engaged with all phases of product development, from architectural design through firmware architecture and development
Working with stakeholders and partners, you will enhance and fine tune future HW/SW product solutions and architect new ones
Drive, define, implement, and execute FW integration and validation test plans
Responsible for firmware level debug as part of end-to-end firmware development and debug
Source, debug, and resolve HW & SW bugs
Architect and implement test cases and frameworks that will be utilized to conduct testing and establish coverage
Identify and address inefficiencies and gaps in coverage, testing, execution, etc.
Requirements:
Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 1+ year(s) technical engineering experience OR Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 2+ years technical engineering experience OR equivalent experience
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
Nice to have:
5+ years of professional experience designing, developing, or testing, software and hardware
Experience with working from early concept of SoC/Platform Architecture and design to shipping final product
Experience with areas such as: platform initialization, manageability, security, motherboard, drivers, UEFI, BMC, OS, virtualization, memory management, RAS
Experience in assessing coverage, debugging HW/SW issues, and writing scripts (Python or similar)
Experience working on multiple products supporting customer issues with troubleshooting and debugging skills
Debug experience resulting into solving complex HW/FW interface issues
Experience with Implementation of hardware/firmware security primitives
Experience developing SW/HW coverage, stimulus, and test content
Experience with FW development life cycle with emphasis on FW validation and integration