2 days ago
Base Salary
$120k - $261k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain firmware and driver solutions for Microsoft custom silicon platforms, including MAIA and COBALT, deployed across Azure.
- Contribute to architecture, design, silicon bring-up, validation, manufacturing, and productization phases.
- Design and develop driver interfaces, SoC bring-up system libraries, low-level hardware protocols, and platform features.
- Participate in firmware architecture and technical design reviews for scalable, reliable, and high-performance solutions.
- Drive hardware-software integration to enable new silicon capabilities and accelerate feature deployment across Azure infrastructure.
- Collaborate with silicon, board electrical, and hardware engineering teams to deliver new platform capabilities.
- Partner with operating system and software platform teams to integrate and deploy technologies across the Azure fleet.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field, or a master's/doctorate in a related field, or equivalent experience.
- At least five years of professional experience designing and developing firmware solutions.
- At least five years of experience with C, C++, and Rust delivering production-quality software.
- At least five years of experience with two or more of PCIe, I2C, SPI, USB, and UART.
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including the Microsoft Cloud Background Check.
- Preferred experience with UEFI and ARM Trusted Firmware.
- Preferred experience with AI-assisted and agentic development tools, complex hardware-software debugging, ARM64 SoCs, Armv8 architecture, boot flows, trusted firmware, and system initialization.
- Preferred doctorate plus three years, master's degree plus six years, or bachelor's degree plus eight years of technical engineering experience with coding, or equivalent experience.
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.