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As a Principal Firmware Engineer, you will be part of engineering team and collaborate with partners to develop and maintain the BIOS/UEFI portfolio, supporting infrastructure across the Azure fleet.
Job Responsibility:
Drive strategic objectives and key results to enhance Azure’s BIOS/UEFI security posture
Partnering with the Hardware New Program Initiative team and engineering counterparts, oversee the development of new hardware SKUs
Champion the implementation of new BIOS/UEFI requirements to optimize performance, telemetry, and diagnostics
Manage requirements, and feature delivery through agile execution
Define, communicate, and establish vendor-agnostic requirements for innovative hardware solutions
Partner with architects, technical program managers, and engineering leaders to advance standardization efforts
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
required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter
Nice to have:
12+ years of experience with majority as a technical lead, or similar
Proficient in developing low-level FW or SW for HW platforms, including FW, BIOS, UEFI, EDK2, BMC, among others
Experience managing the product lifecycle from project inception through release, with the capability to guide teams toward realizing strategic visions
Familiarity with end-to-end CPU/SoC product development processes
Experience with data center hardware/software projects, from concept through deployment
10+ years of experience in software development using one or more programming languages such as C, C++, C#, Python, etc.