8 hours ago
Raleigh, NC, USA +4 moreMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$102k - $219k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain embedded firmware, low-level drivers, initialization flows, and diagnostic instrumentation for MAIA and Cobalt platforms.
- Investigate boot failures, crashes, hangs, and functional or reliability issues using source code, register state, logs, crash dumps, and hardware debug tools.
- Reproduce failures in lab environments and implement firmware fixes, workarounds, and regression tests.
- Develop scripts and reusable tools for telemetry collection, failure-signature extraction, and automated analysis across lab and fleet datasets.
- Use data analysis and approved AI-assisted tools to summarize evidence, identify patterns, and validate conclusions against hardware and firmware behavior.
- Collaborate with firmware, silicon, platform, OS, and fleet teams to resolve issues and document reproducible debug procedures and lessons learned.
Requirements
- Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field plus 1+ year of technical engineering experience, or a bachelor's degree in one of these fields plus 2+ years of technical engineering experience, or equivalent experience.
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including the Microsoft Cloud Background Check.
- Ability to provide citizenship, U.S. residency, or other protected-status documentation for assessment of eligibility to access export-controlled information.
- Preferred 3+ years of professional experience in embedded-system design, development, integration, validation, or system-level debugging.
- Experience developing embedded firmware in C or C++.
- Experience debugging firmware or embedded systems using logs, source-level debugging, or hardware tools.
- Experience scripting for automation or engineering-data analysis.
Benefits
- The position may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
- The role is open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until filled.
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.