Microsoft Principal Security Architect 

United States, Washington 

535389696

The candidate should have strong coding skills in defensive development and experience in secure firmware development. This job involves coding and writing secure code. The successful candidate should have experience with some or all of the following: Confidential Compute, secure boot, measured boot, hardware root of trusts, cryptoanalysis. Understanding of Real-time OS and OS primitives, memory management, memory protection, scheduling, interrupts, threading, Trusted Execution Environments.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, Rust
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Experience with security protocols, secure boot and measured boot, LLVM and GCC compilers
• Familiar with Confidential Compute, network and server architectures.

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:

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 August 14, 2024.

• Full-stack architecture of hardware, firmware and software for secure AI infrastructure.
• Write and review code that forms Trusted Execution Environments on CPU, GPU and IO Devices.
• Collaborate with Azure engineering teams to integrate custom AI accelerators into the Azure stack.

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