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Principal Firmware Engineer

United States, Redmond 139900.00 - 274800.00 USD / Year · Job Posted March 22, 2026
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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.
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