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Principal Firmware Architect

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United States , Redmond

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139900.00 - 274800.00 USD / Year
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We in SCHIE’s Firmware Center of Excellence create the foundational firmware that powers the Microsoft Cloud. Our firmware lights up millions of servers and racks across the globe, enabling users to do everything from running blogs to crunching through powerful AI algorithms. We’re a growing team of diverse, talented & passionate engineers inventing and delivering technology to light up the “world’s computer!” We are working on the next generation hardware/firmware for server, silicon and rack infrastructure with a focus on innovation in firmware technology to secure Azure infrastructure for Microsoft and their customers. We believe that a robust firmware infrastructure leads to incredibly powerful computing experiences—if you believe this too, we need you! We are looking for a Principal Firmware Engineer to join our team.

Job Responsibility:

  • Involved with all phases of product development, from microarchitecture design through firmware architecture and development
  • At the design phase, you will be part of a team driving the architecture, design and development of the various sub-systems including firmware development of low-level hardware interfaces and define boot and management flows of ASIC and Rack infrastructure
  • Responsible for firmware level debug as part of end-to-end firmware development and debug

Requirements:

  • Doctorate in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 3+ years technical engineering experience
  • Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience
  • Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience
  • equivalent experience
  • Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements
  • 12+ years of technical engineering experience
  • Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 10+ years of technical engineering experience
  • Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 7+ years of technical engineering experience
  • Doctorate degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 5+ years of technical engineering experience
  • 10+ years of professional experience designing and developing Embedded Software solutions
  • Experience with working from early concept of SoC Architecture and design to shipping final product
  • Experience driving firmware architecture solutions with detailed troubleshooting and debugging skills
  • Experience with Peripherals such as PCIe, memory interfaces, OS primitives, memory management, scheduling, interrupts, threading
  • Experience with Implementation of Hardware/Firmware Security primitives
  • Experience with Platform initialization, low level drivers for peripherals such as PCIe, I2C, eMMC, SPI, USB, UARTs as well as Memory Management, Scheduling, BMC and rack management
  • Experience with Architecting, Designing and delivering on new Data Center class technologies across the entire platform

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Job Posted:
April 01, 2026

Employment Type:
Fulltime
Work Type:
Hybrid work
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