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Principal Firmware Validation Manager

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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, high energy 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/SW 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 highly motivated FW Validation Manager with a background in system validation and debug to work on lighting up these various technologies as each team produces their part. You must have experience with SoC Architecture and Design, bring up of SoC, root causing issues at the intersection of multiple subsystems across firmware and hardware.

Job Responsibility:

  • Lead a team of engineers working to validate and deliver various FW/SW products and flows
  • Continuously integrate FW/SW into Platforms and Systems to be deployed into Azure Infrastructure
  • Work to integrate AI agents and solutions to scale the team, increase its bandwidth, and enhance its efficiency
  • Work in a cross-geo cross-functional environment and team
  • Mentor, guide, and care for your team members
  • Partner with peers across different teams and geos and contribute to the success of the greater organization
  • Be involved with all phases of product development, from architectural design through firmware & software architecture and development
  • Working with stakeholders and partners, enhance and fine tune future HW/FW/SW product solutions and co-architect new ones
  • Oversee firmware level debug as part of end-to-end firmware development and debug
  • Source, debug, and resolve HW, FW & SW bugs
  • Set expectations, negotiate timelines, and manage handshakes, dependencies, and deliverables

Requirements:

  • 15+ years of professional experience leading engineering teams to design, develop, and test firmware, software and hardware
  • Experience with working from early concept of SoC/Platform Architecture and design to shipping final product
  • Experience with Platform Initialization, Manageability, Security, Motherboard, Drivers, UEFI, BMC, OS, Virtualization, Memory Management, RAS, and similar areas
  • Experience in leading teams, assessing coverage, debugging HW/FW/SW issues, and writing scripts (Python or similar)

Nice to have:

  • Management experience in managing cross-functional teams with competing priorities and projects
  • BS in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent industry experience
  • Experience working on multiple products supporting customer issues with strong troubleshooting and debugging skills
  • Experience with Architecting, Designing, and delivering on new Data Center class technologies across the entire platform
  • Debug experience resulting into solving complex HW/FW/SW 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
  • Proficient in C++ or equivalent

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Job Posted:
February 18, 2026

Employment Type:
Fulltime
Work Type:
On-site work
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