Microsoft Principal Firmware Engineer 

Taiwan, Taoyuan City 

175394607

Minimum Qualifications:

• Doctorate in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or related field AND 3+ years technical engineering experience
  • OR Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience
  • OR Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 6+ years of experience in software development in coding languages C++ or Python
• 6+ years of experience in post-silicon SoC or system validation or diagnostic/stress test content development.

Other Requirements:

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to, the following specialized security screenings:

• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in build systems such as CMake and familiarity with CI/CD systems.
• Knowledge of power and thermal profiling, TDP/PnP, and PVT characterization.
• Knowledge of or experience with AI models/kernels such as GPT, Gemm, etc.
• Experience with CUDA or GPU or tensor-based programming is a plus+
• Ability to work closely with diverse customers, from understanding their needs to resolving their problems.
• Experience with one or more of these: DMAs, PCIe, Memory (DDR, HBM), Network Controllers, Image decoders.

• Develop compute-intensive and highly performant test applications running on the MAIA hardware systems, focusing on PCIe, Memory, back-end network & TDP workloads.
• Design and develop workload profiling and analysis tools that capture and benchmark the runtimes of various compute blocks and/or hardware accelerators.
• Develop end-to-end post-silicon tests and tools for functional and performance scenarios of the system.
• Collaborate across organizations with AI Frameworks SW, Silicon & System Validation, Architecture and Firmware.

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