Microsoft Principal Firmware Development Engineer 

Taiwan, Taoyuan City 

237223578

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The Firmware Center of Excellenceis responsible for

in firmware development in embedded systems.

Qualifications:

• Doctorate in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, 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.
• 7+ years’experienceinsoftware developmentwith C++.
• 7+ years’ experience in post-silicon SoC or system validation or diagnostic/stress test content development.
• Experience with one or more of these: DMAs, PCIe, Memory (DDR, HBM), Network Controllers, Image decoders.

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.

• Experience inbuildsystems such asCMakeandfamiliarity with CI/CD systems.
• Knowledge of power and thermal profiling, TDP/PnP, and PVT characterization.
• Knowledge ofor experience withAI models/kernelssuch NCCL and Mistral.
• Experience with Cuda or GPU or tensor-based programming.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:Microsoft will accept applications for the role until October 21st, 2025.

• compute-intensive and highly performant test applications running onthe Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Accelerator (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 variouscomputeblocksand/or hardware accelerators.

• Develop end-to-end post-silicon tests andtoolsfor functional and performancescenarios of the system.

• AIFrameworksSW,Silicon &System Validation, Architecture and Firmware.