Senior Firmware Engineer Job at Microsoft Corporation (Redmond)

Senior Firmware Engineer

Microsoft Corporation

Location:
United States , Redmond

Category:
IT - Software Development

Contract Type:
Not provided

Salary:

106400.00 - 203600.00 USD / Year

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Job Description:

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 Senior Firmware Engineer 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.

Job Responsibility:

Develop firmware for telemetry systems, platform initialization, and board support packages across Azure’s custom silicon programs
Design and implement low-level inter-core messaging services and support SSIO interfaces such as I3C, I2C, UART, SPI, and others
Own and evolve the RTOS and driver frameworks, ensuring high performance, reliability, and scalability
Build and maintain OS-level performance infrastructure and debugging tools to accelerate development and root-cause analysis
Collaborate with silicon, hardware, and software teams to deliver secure, production-grade firmware that powers Azure’s infrastructure
Take ownership of a major technical area and drive its roadmap, contributing to long-term strategy and mentoring others

Requirements:

Doctorate in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 1+ year(s) technical engineering experience
Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience
Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 5+ years technical engineering experience
Proficient in C/C++
Experience debugging and resolving issues spanning multiple subsystems in the embedded ecosystem
Experience with one or more of the following: Platform initialization, low level device drivers for peripherals/protocols such as I3C, I2C, SPI, USB, UARTs as well as Memory Management, Scheduling, Interrupts or multi-threading
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements

Nice to have:

Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 5+ years firmware engineering experience with focus on embedded systems and RTOS
Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 4+ years firmware engineering experience with focus on embedded systems and RTOS
Proficient in embedded RUST, RUST RTOS’s and toolchains
Experience with SoC bring-up, OS primitives, memory management, and multi-threading
Experience in working in pre silicon environments

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
January 31, 2026

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

Hybrid work

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