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The Principal Firmware Architect joins the Silicon Engineering Solutions and Cloud Hardware Infrastructure Engineering team to develop foundational firmware for server, silicon, and rack infrastructure. This role involves designing through firmware architecture and development, specifically driving the design of sub-systems including low-level hardware interfaces and defining boot and management flows for ASIC and Rack infrastructure. The candidate will perform end-to-end firmware development and debug. Key technical requirements include experience with SoC Architecture, platform initialization, and low-level drivers for peripherals such as PCIe, I2C, eMMC, SPI, USB, and UARTs. Additional core competencies involve memory management, scheduling, interrupts, threading, and the implementation of hardware/firmware security primitives. The role focuses on solving technical challenges related to securing cloud infrastructure and delivering data center class technologies across the entire platform.
Design and develop firmware architecture for server, silicon, and rack infrastructure.
Drive the design of low-level hardware interfaces and define boot and management flows for ASIC and Rack systems.
Perform end-to-end firmware development and troubleshooting to resolve complex system issues.
Implement hardware and firmware security primitives to protect Azure infrastructure.
Develop low-level drivers for peripherals including PCIe, I2C, eMMC, SPI, USB, and UARTs.
Manage platform initialization, memory management, scheduling, and BMC/rack management systems.
Architect and deliver new data center class technologies across the entire platform from concept to production.
What we're looking for
A Doctorate in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or Computer Science and 3+ years of experience, OR a Master's degree and 6+ years, OR a Bachelor's degree and 8+ years.
Ability to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check and other required security screenings.
12+ years of technical engineering experience (preferred).
A Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or Mechanical Engineering and 10+ years of experience (preferred).
A Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or Mechanical Engineering and 7+ years of experience (preferred).
A Doctorate degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or Mechanical Engineering and 5+ years of experience (preferred).
10+ years of professional experience designing and developing Embedded Software solutions (preferred).
Experience with SoC architecture, firmware troubleshooting, hardware/firmware security primitives, and data center technologies (preferred).