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The Senior Firmware Validation Engineer joins the Silicon and Cloud Hardware Infrastructure Engineering team to support Azure infrastructure, specifically the MAIA and Cobalt product lines. This role involves owning the coordination, integration, validation, and debugging of system software across various domains, including SoC firmware, networking, attestation, BMC, and Rack Manager. You will define and drive networking architectures for AI training and inference platforms, ensuring validated solutions move from pre-silicon to datacenter deployment. Key responsibilities include troubleshooting platform-level issues, improving test coverage, and creating automated dashboards for system health. Required skills include expertise in embedded systems, system-level integration, and validation infrastructure. You should possess experience with Ethernet layer 1 and 2, hardware debuggers like JTAG, oscilloscopes, and logic analyzers, as well as automation framework development.
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