Overview
Microsoft 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, 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.
The FW/SW CoE team 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 highly motivated background in Silicon design, firmware development, validation, and debug to work on lighting up the various features and technologies as each team produces their part. You must 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.
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Responsibilities
Design and implement low-level SoC firmware and silicon firmware libraries.
Own firmware for one or more IPs/subsystems from architecture through production.
Work with silicon architects to define firmware/HW interfaces and initialization flows.
Develop reusable, modular firmware APIs and frameworks.
Develop and debug boot, initialization, reset, error handling and recovery flows.
Participate in pre-silicon validation and first-silicon bring-up.
Perform system-level debugging across firmware, hardware and software boundaries.
Analyze complex failures using logs, telemetry, register state and hardware debug tools.
Work closely with architecture, RTL/DV, validation, security, platform firmware and driver teams.
Drive issues independently from reproduction through RCA and resolution.
Improve firmware quality through unit tests, validation automation and reusable test infrastructure.
Mentor engineers and influence technical design within the feature/subsystem area.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
Doctorate in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 1+ years technical engineering experience OR Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 4+ years technical engineering ex
