Microsoft Senior Firmware Engineer 

Taiwan, Taoyuan City 

635345231

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As a senior engineer on our team, you will work on telemetry systems, interrupt management, memory management, low-level inter-core messaging services, USB, and a wide range of SSIO interfaces including I3C, I2C, UART, and SPI. You’ll also help architect and maintain our RTOS, driver frameworks, and OS-level performance infrastructure, while building and refining debugging tools that support scalable and reliable development. The role demands deep technical expertise, a bias for action, and a strong sense of ownership. You’ll be expected to balance fast-paced delivery with engineering rigor, and over time, grow into owning a major technical area within our firmware stack.

Required Qualifications:

• Doctorate in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 1+ year(s) technical engineering experience
  • OR Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience
  • OR Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 5+ years technical engineering experience
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 4+ years of experience in Firmware Engineering.
• Proficient in C/C++.
• Experience debugging and resolving issues spanning multiple subsystems in the embedded ecosystem.
• Experience with one or more of the following: Platform initialization, low level device drivers for peripherals/protocols such as I3C, I2C, SPI, USB, UARTs as well as Memory Management, Scheduling, Interrupts or multi-threading

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:

• Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 5+ years firmware engineering experience with focus on embedded systems and RTOS
  • OR Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 4+ years firmware engineering experience with focus on embedded systems and RTOS.
• Proficient in embedded RUST, RUST RTOS’s and toolchains
• Hands-on experience with SoC bring-up, OS primitives, memory management, and multi-threading.
• Experience with one or more of the following: Platform initialization, low level device drivers for peripherals/protocols such as I3C, I2C, SPI, USB, UARTs as well as Memory Management, Scheduling, Interrupts or multi-threading.
• Experience in working in pre silicon environments.

• Proficient in embedded RUST, RUST RTOS’s and toolchains

• Hands-on experience with SoC bring-up, OS primitives, memory management, and multi-threading.

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

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:

• Develop firmware for telemetry systems, platform initialization, and board support packages across Azure’s custom silicon programs, including Cobalt and MAIA.
• Design and implement low-level inter-core messaging services and support SSIO interfaces such as I3C, I2C, UART, SPI, and others.
• Own and evolve the RTOS and driver frameworks, ensuring high performance, reliability, and scalability.
• Build and maintain OS-level performance infrastructure and debugging tools to accelerate development and root-cause analysis.
• Collaborate with silicon, hardware, and software teams to deliver secure, production-grade firmware that powers Azure’s infrastructure.
• Take ownership of a major technical area and drive its roadmap, contributing to long-term strategy and mentoring others.

• Embody our and