Principal Firmware Engineering Manager

Microsoft

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Work type: Hybrid
Location: —
Salary: $165,600–$296,400 / yr
Posted: 5 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live yesterday
Closes: Apr 19, 2027

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The Principal Firmware Engineering Manager joins the Silicon Engineering Solutions and Cloud Hardware Infrastructure Engineering team within the Firmware Center of Excellence. This role involves leading a team of engineers to design and architect the next generation of server, silicon, and rack infrastructure for the Azure Fleet. Key responsibilities include overseeing all product development phases, from microarchitecture design to firmware development and diagnostics. You will drive the architecture of sub-systems, define ASIC boot flows, and manage firmware-level debugging. Required technical competencies include experience with peripherals like PCIe, memory interfaces, OS primitives, and low-level drivers for I2C, eMMC, SPI, USB, and UARTs. The role focuses on implementing hardware security primitives and platform initialization for data center class technologies to secure cloud infrastructure.

Skills

Firmware Embedded Software SoC Architecture PCIe I2C eMMC SPI USB UART Memory Management Interrupts Multi-threading Board Support Package low level drivers ASIC Microarchitecture Diagnostics Debugging

What you'll do

Lead all phases of product development from microarchitecture design through firmware architecture and diagnostics.
Drive the architecture, design, and development of various hardware sub-systems.
Develop firmware for low-level hardware interfaces and define ASIC boot flows.
Execute firmware-level diagnostics and debugging as part of end-to-end development.
Architect and deliver new data center class technologies across the entire platform.
Implement hardware and firmware security primitives for Azure infrastructure.
Manage the integration of board support packages and low-level drivers for peripherals.
Drive architectural changes by working with external partner teams.

What we're looking for

Doctorate in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 7+ years technical engineering experience.
Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 10+ years technical engineering experience.
Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 12+ years technical engineering experience.
Equivalent experience to the degree and years of experience requirements.
Ability to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check.
10+ years of professional experience designing and developing Embedded Software solutions (preferred).
Experience with peripherals such as PCIe, memory interfaces, OS primitives, memory management, scheduling, interrupts, and threading (preferred).
Experience with platform initialization, board support package integration, and low-level drivers (preferred).

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