New 
Principal Firmware Engineer
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Washington, Redmond | |
 Aug 19, 2025 | |
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OverviewMicrosoft Silicon and Cloud Hardware Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE) is the team behind Microsoft's expanding Cloud Infrastructure and responsible for powering Microsoft's "Intelligent Cloud" mission. SCHIE 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, 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. The FW CoE is responsible for HW/FW for Azure Infrastructure. We are working on the next generation HW/FW for server, 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 Principal Firmware Engineer with a background in system integration, validation, and debug to work on lighting up the various features and technologies as each team produces their part to join our team. You have experience with SoC Architecture and Design, Bring-Up of new silicon and platform, root causing issues at the intersection of multiple subsystems across firmware and hardware. Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
ResponsibilitiesYou will be involved with all phases of product development, from architectural design through firmware architecture and development.Working with stakeholders and partners, you will enhance and fine tune future HW/SW product solutions and architect new ones.You will drive, define, implement, and lead execution of FW integration and validation test plans. You will be responsible for firmware level debug as part of end-to-end firmware development and debug.You are expected to source, debug, and resolve HW & SW bugs. You will architect and implement test cases and frameworks that will be utilized to conduct testing and establish coverage. You will identify and address inefficiencies and gaps in coverage, testing, execution, etc.You will set expectations, negotiate timelines, and manage handshakes, dependencies, and deliverables.You will mentor, guide, and help peers and other team members.Embody our culture and values. | |