Microsoft Senior Firmware Engineer 

United States, Washington 

864829900

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 4+ years of professional experience designing, developing RTOS and bare metal 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:

• Proven and demonstrable skill in Rust, C, C++.
• Experience with GIT.
• Experienced with ROM, Bootloader, and embedded runtime development.
• Experience in working in pre silicon environments.
• Familiar with PCIe, NVME, I3C, I2C, SPI, SPI-FLASH.
• Familiarity with standard Cryptography algorithms.
• Familiarity with secure boots, attestation, recovery.
• Ability to debug and resolve issues spanning multiple subsystems.
• Solid problem-solving, debugging, and troubleshooting skills, advanced design and development skills.

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 September 12, 2024.

• Design and development of security accelerators and Root of Trust firmware.
• Be involved with all phases of product architecture, design, and implementation of security accelerators and SOC.
• At the design phase, help define the architecture and design of bootloader and embedded kernel.
• Responsible for firmware development, including initialization code, boot loader development, drivers, protocols, and feature development of low-level embedded systems.
• Coding, debugging and troubleshooting.
• Device firmware development and secure boot flows.
• The successful candidate should have experience with some or all the following:
• Firmware development, board support package development, peripherals such as PCIe, NVME, I2C/I3C, SPI, SPI-FLASH, UARTs.
• Real-time OS and OS primitives, memory management, scheduling, interrupts, and threading.
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