Microsoft Cloud Hardware Infrastructure Engineering (CHIE) is the team behind Microsoft’s expanding Cloud Infrastructure and responsible for powering Microsoft’s “Intelligent Cloud” mission. CHIE delivers the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's over 200 online businesses including Bing, MSN, Office 365, Xbox Live, Skype, OneDrive and the Microsoft Azure platform globally with our server and data center infrastructure, security and compliance, operations, globalization, and manageability solutions. Our focus is on smart growth, high efficiency, and delivering a trusted experience to customers and partners worldwide and we are looking for passionate, high energy engineers to help achieve that mission.  

As Microsoft's cloud business continues to grow the ability to deploy new offerings and HW infrastructure on time, in high volume with high quality and lowest cost is of paramount importance. To achieve this goal, the Cloud Hardware Infrastructure Engineering (CHIE) team is instrumental in defining and delivering operational measures of success for hardware manufacturing, improving the planning process, quality, delivery, scale and sustainability related to Microsoft cloud hardware. We are looking for seasoned engineers with a strong passion for customer focused solutions, insight and industry knowledge to envision and implement future technical solutions that will manage and optimize the Cloud infrastructure. 

Responsibilities

Microsoft Silicon and Cloud Hardware Infrastructure Engineering (CHIE) is the team behind Microsoft’s expanding Cloud Infrastructure and responsible for powering Microsoft’s “Intelligent Cloud” mission. CHIE delivers the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's over 200 online businesses including Bing, MSN, Office 365, Xbox Live, Skype, OneDrive and the Microsoft Azure platform globally with our server and data center infrastructure, security and compliance, operations, globalization, and manageability solutions. Our focus is on smart growth, high efficiency, and delivering a trusted experience to customers and partners worldwide and we are looking for passionate, high energy engineers to help achieve that mission.   

Are you passionate about working on cutting edge new technology in a team that embodies the growth mindset? Are you hoping to join an organization which is built on a mission “To empower every person and organization on this planet to achieve more”?  

The FW CoE is responsible for HW/FW for Azure Infrastructure. We are working on the next generation HW/FW for server, GPGPUs, silicon and rack infrastructure with a focus on innovation in firmware technology to secure Azure infrastructure for Microsoft and their customers. 

We are looking for a highly motivated Principal FW System engineer with a background in UEFI firmware architecture and design to work on lighting up these various technologies as each team produces their part. You must have experience with UEFI architecture, x86, SoC Architecture and Design, bring up of SoC, root causing issues at the intersection of multiple subsystems across firmware and hardware.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications 

• BS in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent industry experience. 

• 8+ years of professional experience in designing, developing Embedded Software and Firmware solutions. 

• Experience with working from early concept of SoC Architecture and design to shipping final product. 

• Experience working with multiple teams on RCA with strong troubleshooting and debugging skills. 

• Experience with Platform initialization, Board support package integration, low level drivers for peripherals such as PCIe, I2C, eMMC, SPI, USB, UARTs as well as Memory Management, Scheduling, Interrupts and multi-threading. 

• UEFI design experience resulting into solving complex HW/FW interface issues. 

   

Preferred Qualifications 

• The successful candidate should have experience with some or all the following: Peripherals such as UEFI, PCIe, memory interfaces, OS primitives, memory management, scheduling, interrupts, threading. 

• Experience with Implementation of Hardware/Firmware Security and firmware enablement primitives 

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