5 days ago
Base Salary
$143k - $304k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define and drive firmware architecture for HBM, ANC, Compute, and SoC infrastructure subsystems.
- Develop C/C++ firmware libraries, frameworks, and APIs for compute engines, ANC subsystems, DMA engines, and similar IP blocks.
- Lead silicon bring-up, debugging, root-cause analysis, firmware optimization, and validation activities.
- Define firmware verification requirements and test plans.
- Lead cross-team initiatives across firmware, silicon architecture, software, security, and system integration.
- Represent firmware technical direction in architecture and leadership reviews, mentor engineers, and establish engineering best practices and coding standards.
Requirements
- Doctorate in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field plus 3+ years of technical engineering experience; or a master's degree plus 6+ years; or a bachelor's degree plus 8+ years; equivalent experience is also accepted.
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and government security screening requirements, including the Microsoft Cloud Background Check.
- Preferred qualifications include 12+ years of firmware, embedded systems, or SoC development experience and technical leadership of complex silicon or firmware programs.
- Expert programming skills in C/C++ and Python, with deep knowledge of CPU and accelerator architecture, ARM/RISC architectures, and on-chip interconnects.
- Experience with boot loaders, platform initialization, silicon abstraction layers, network controllers, high-performance computing subsystems, silicon bring-up, emulation and FPGA platforms, and firmware performance optimization.
- Experience using JTAG, Lauterbach TRACE32, Zebu, HAPS, Palladium, or Veloce, plus experience with Azure hardware, AI accelerator silicon, confidential computing, security firmware, telemetry, and RAS architecture.
Benefits
- The typical U.S. base pay range is USD $142,800-$274,800 per year, with a separate range for specified San Francisco Bay Area and New York City metropolitan area locations.
- Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
- The position will remain open for a minimum of five days and accepts applications on an ongoing basis until filled.
About Microsoft
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