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The Senior Firmware Engineer joins the Firmware Center of Excellence to develop next-generation hardware and firmware for Azure infrastructure. This role involves designing and architecting firmware solutions for cloud hardware systems, focusing on system-level end-to-end design, debugging, and troubleshooting. You will develop and maintain scalable firmware architectures, create security threat models, and implement modules for interfaces like USB vNIC, SPI, I2C, I3C, and PCIe. The position requires proficiency in C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python, along with experience in Embedded Linux, U-Boot, and Board Support Packages. You will solve complex technical problems at the intersection of firmware and hardware, utilizing knowledge of OpenBMC, DMTF MCTP, Redfish, PLDM, SPDM, and RAS to ensure reliable, high-performance server manageability and security.
What does a Firmware Engineer earn?
Median $196750 from 38 postings across 10 companies.
Design and architect firmware solutions for Cloud Hardware systems with a focus on end-to-end system-level design.
Develop and maintain firmware architecture to ensure scalability, modularity, and maintainability.
Develop security threat models for the platform in coordination with vendors and security teams.
Design and implement firmware modules for hardware interfaces including USB vNIC, SPI, I2C, I3C, and PCIe.
Perform system-level debugging and troubleshooting to identify and resolve hardware and firmware-related issues.
Provide technical leadership and guidance to internal developers and external partners to deliver reliable solutions.
Architect server hardware solutions that meet cloud service requirements at the lowest possible cost of ownership.
What we're looking for
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field and 4+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages like C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
Ability to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check.
6+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages like C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python (preferred).
6+ years of professional experience in architecting, designing, and developing firmware/software solutions (preferred).
Experience in Embedded Linux, U-Boot, and Board Support Packages (BSP) porting (preferred).
6+ years of experience with platform initialization, low-level drivers (PCIe, I2C, eMMC, SPI, USB, UARTs), memory management, scheduling, interrupts, or multi-threading (preferred).
In-depth knowledge of hardware and firmware interfaces including OpenBMC, DMTF MCTP, Redfish, PLDM, SPDM, and RAS (preferred).
Detailed knowledge of core networking protocols and REST API frameworks (preferred).
SoC Architecture
Firmware Development
Silicon Design
Bring-Up
JTAG
Arm TrustZone
x86
Arm
FPGA
ZeBu
Palladium
Lauterbach TRACE32
Arm Development Studio
Linux
Windows
Driver Development
RTL
Pre-silicon Validation
Post-silicon Validation
ATE
C
C++
Rust
Firmware Development
Embedded Software
Driver Development
Linux
PCIe
I2C
eMMC
SPI
USB
UART
Memory Management
Multi-threading
Encryption Ciphers
Security Protocols
Penetration Testing
Board Support Package
Microarchitecture Design
C
Rust
Firmware Development
SoC
Boot Sequencing
Power Management
Memory-Mapped Register Access
Device Tree
Linker
Build Systems
Emulation
ISO 26262
FMEA
Secure Boot
LLM-assisted workflows