14 hours ago
Base Salary
$120k - $261k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain the BIOS/UEFI portfolio supporting infrastructure across the Azure fleet.
- Improve Azure BIOS/UEFI security by resolving vulnerabilities and keeping firmware components current.
- Oversee BIOS/UEFI development, validation, compliance, schedules, and rollout plans for new hardware SKUs.
- Implement BIOS/UEFI requirements that improve performance, telemetry, and diagnostics.
- Manage requirements and feature delivery through sprints, backlogs, milestones, and continuous planning.
- Define vendor-agnostic hardware requirements and collaborate with silicon vendors, ODMs, OEMs, architects, technical program managers, and engineering leaders.
- Advance BIOS/UEFI standardization efforts within Microsoft and across the silicon industry.
Requirements
- Doctorate in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field and 1+ year of technical engineering experience; or a master’s degree and 4+ years; or a bachelor’s degree and 5+ years; or equivalent experience.
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and government security screening requirements, including the Microsoft Cloud Background Check.
- Preferred: 10+ years of experience, with the majority as a Technical Lead or similar.
- Proficiency developing low-level firmware or software for hardware platforms, including BIOS, UEFI, EDK2, and BMC.
- Experience with leadership, cross-functional collaboration, complex project oversight, product lifecycle management, strategic planning, and success metrics.
- Preferred experience with firmware/software development, testing strategies, requirements definition, CPU/SoC product development, and data center hardware/software projects.
- Preferred: 7+ years of software development experience using languages such as C, C++, C#, or Python.
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 will remain open for a minimum of 5 days and accept applications 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.