Principal Firmware Architect
Microsoft
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This role pays more than 57% of similar roles. Most pay $150,000–$221,000 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $177k versus about $186k for comparable roles.
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Microsoft Corporation is a global technology leader producing software, hardware, and cloud services including Windows, Office 365, Azure cloud platform, Xbox gaming, and Surface devices. Industry: Software & Cloud Computing
Microsoft currently has 634 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $119,800–$234,700 across 612 roles with salary data.
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The Senior Software Engineer - Blade Server BMC Firmware Development joins the Firmware Center of Excellence to develop next-generation hardware and firmware for Azure infrastructure. This role focuses on designing and architecting firmware solutions for cloud hardware systems, specifically addressing server manageability and security. You will build and maintain scalable firmware architectures, develop security threat models, and implement modules for hardware interfaces including USB vNIC, SPI, I2C, I3C, and PCIe. The position requires expertise in C, C++, or Python, along with experience in BMC, Embedded Linux, U-Boot, and Board Support Packages. You will perform system-level debugging to resolve issues at the intersection of firmware and hardware subsystems, utilizing protocols such as OpenBMC, DMTF MCTP, Redfish, PLDM, SPDM, and RAS to ensure reliable cloud service performance.
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