10 hours ago
Base Salary
$120k - $261k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead embedded firmware development, debugging, and fixes for silicon and system-on-chip issues.
- Own investigations into firmware crashes, boot and reset failures, hangs, memory corruption, and hardware/software interaction issues across MAIA and Cobalt.
- Correlate firmware logs, silicon error records, crash dumps, operating-system and driver traces, configuration, and fleet telemetry to isolate failure mechanisms.
- Develop reproducible experiments, diagnostic firmware, and tooling to distinguish firmware defects from silicon, hardware, and software causes.
- Build scalable analysis and triage automation for failure bucketing, signature detection, cohort comparisons, and regression detection.
- Apply statistical analysis and AI-assisted methods to prioritize investigations and reduce manual analysis, validating results against independent evidence.
- Drive mitigations and permanent fixes, verify them through regression testing and post-deployment telemetry, and improve instrumentation and test coverage.
- Document troubleshooting guidance and mentor engineers while collaborating across firmware, silicon, hardware, operating-system, and fleet teams.
Requirements
- Doctorate in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field plus 1+ year of technical engineering experience; or a master’s degree plus 4+ years; or a bachelor’s degree plus 5+ years; or equivalent experience.
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and government security-screening requirements, including the Microsoft Cloud Background Check.
- Ability to satisfy export-control eligibility requirements by providing proof of citizenship, U.S. residency, or another protected status.
- Preferred: 8+ years of professional experience in embedded-system design, development, integration, validation, or system-level debugging.
- Preferred: experience with cross-layer root-cause analysis using logs, crash dumps, or telemetry; C/C++ firmware debugging; scripting; and automated diagnostic, test, CI/CD, and regression pipelines.
- Preferred: experience debugging complex embedded systems involving boards, FPGA, emulation, or simulation environments and managing production or fleet issues through corrective action and verification.
- Preferred: experience with PCIe, memory subsystems, I2C, SPI, silicon bring-up, firmware initialization, JTAG, GDB, oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, Python, KQL/SQL, statistical methods, and AI-assisted analysis.
- Preferred: experience mentoring engineers, documenting troubleshooting methods, and collaborating across firmware, silicon, hardware, operating-system, and fleet teams.
Benefits
- The typical U.S. base pay range is USD $119,800-$234,700 per year; the San Francisco Bay Area and New York City metropolitan area range is USD $160,200-$261,000 per year.
- Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
- The position 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.