Job Description
The Azure Silicon Cloud Hardware Infrastructure and Engineering (SCHIE) team is instrumental in defining and delivering operational success for Azure that exceeds our customer’s expectations. The HW Security Center of Excellence within the SCHIE organization is responsible for design and development of Security Solutions (Silicon, Firmware, Hardware) for Server and Rack Infrastructure Firmware for Microsoft's global Azure business. We work closely with Microsoft product groups, industry partners and researchers to architect and develop Security features and solutions that meet the requirements for our cloud services platforms at the lowest possible cost of ownership (TCO). We need to be always learning and insatiably curious. We need to be willing to lean into uncertainty, take risks and move quickly when we make mistakes, recognizing failure happens along the way to mastery and we need to be open to the ideas of others, where the success of others does not diminish our own. We are looking for a highly motivated Senior Firmware Engineer with a background in security to work on Securing Azure Infrastructure, both for the existing Azure fleet and incoming new portfolio. You will be responsible to work with architects to understand the Security Requirements, designing and implementing security features for hardware and firmware systems that power Azure today. You have a passion for security, enjoy seeing your code light up features that come to life on hardware that will be responsible for securing Azure infrastructure. You have strong coding skills, debugging and troubleshooting abilities, with experience in firmware development. Additionally experience with some or all the following: firmware development, SoC bring-up, with Security primitives, bootloaders, platform initialization, board support package porting, peripherals such as PCIe, I2C, SPI, USB, UARTs, OS primitives, memory management, scheduling, interrupts, and multi-threading will be great.
