14 hours ago
Raleigh, NC, USA +6 moreMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$102k - $219k/yr
Responsibilities
- Contribute to firmware architecture and design across product development, manufacturing, and productization.
- Develop and debug BIOS/UEFI firmware, including driver interfaces, system libraries, SoC bring-up, bootloaders, platform initialization, and low-level hardware features.
- Work with peripherals and operating-system primitives including PCIe, NVMe, I2C, SPI, USB, UARTs, memory management, scheduling, interrupts, and threading.
- Support the development, validation, compliance, scheduling, and rollout of new hardware SKUs for next-generation compute and high-memory systems.
- Manage requirements and feature delivery through sprints, backlogs, milestones, and continuous planning.
- Define vendor-agnostic hardware requirements and collaborate with internal teams, silicon vendors, ODMs, and OEMs.
Requirements
- Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field and 1+ year of technical engineering experience; or bachelor's degree in one of these fields and 2+ years of technical engineering experience; or equivalent experience.
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and government security screening requirements, including the Microsoft Cloud Background Check.
- Preferred: 5+ years of professional experience designing and developing BIOS/UEFI firmware solutions.
- Proficiency developing low-level firmware or software for hardware platforms, including firmware, BIOS, UEFI, EDK2, and BMC.
- Demonstrable C programming skills and the ability to debug issues spanning multiple subsystems.
- Preferred familiarity with Intel, AMD, or ARM server architectures; server-product UEFI/BIOS development; hardware schematics; and PCIe, I2C, SPI, USB, and UART buses.
- Ability to solve complex problems, develop and monitor success metrics, think strategically, work at cloud scale, and handle ambiguity.
Tech Stack
C
Categories
About Microsoft
Microsoft develops operating systems, productivity software, cloud services, developer tools, and consumer devices for individuals, enterprises, and governments. Its main products include Windows, Microsoft 365, Azure, Visual Studio/GitHub, Xbox, and LinkedIn; revenue comes from software subscriptions and licenses, cloud consumption, hardware sales, and advertising. Founded in 1975 and headquartered in Redmond, Washington, Microsoft is a public company traded on Nasdaq.