2 days 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, functional issues, and reliability problems using source code, register state, logs, crash dumps, and hardware debugging tools.
- Reproduce failures in laboratory environments and implement firmware fixes, workarounds, and regression tests.
- Develop scripts and reusable tools for telemetry collection, failure-signature extraction, and automated analysis across laboratory and fleet datasets.
- Use data analysis and approved AI-assisted tools to summarize evidence and identify patterns, validating conclusions against hardware and firmware behavior.
- Collaborate with firmware, silicon, platform, operating system, and fleet teams to resolve issues and document reproducible debugging procedures and lessons learned.
Requirements
- Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field and 1+ year of technical engineering experience, or bachelor’s degree in one of these fields and 2+ years of technical engineering experience, or equivalent experience.
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and government security screening requirements, including the Microsoft Cloud Background Check.
- Preferred bachelor’s or master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- Preferred 3+ years of professional experience in embedded-system design, development, integration, validation, or system-level debugging.
- Preferred experience developing embedded firmware in C or C++.
- Preferred experience debugging firmware or embedded systems using logs, source-level debugging, or hardware tools.
- Preferred experience scripting for automation or engineering-data analysis.
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.