Microsoft Senior Firmware Engineer 

United States, Washington 

913715386

First Party Silicon Firmware Team (1PSFW) team is looking for a talentedSenior Firmware Engineerwho has experience working on ARM systems. The role specifically would be to work primarily on writing the firmware for the embedded controllers that exist as part of a larger SoC system, these embedded controller firmware includes features such as power management, subsystem initialization (DDR - Double Data Rate RAM, mesh, Peripheral Componenet Interconnect Express - PCIe, etc.), telemetry (polling for power consumption, temperatures of various on and off die components, and any detected hardware faults/issues) as well as interrupt driven events such as hardware faults and similar. Firmware also includes communications over standard embedded buses (Inter -Intergrated Cirtuit Communications - i2c, i3c, Serial Peripheral Interconnect - SPI, Universal Asynchronous UART, etc.) between components in a larger system.A successful member of this team will understand how these communications buses are used, how to work with General Purpose Input Outpout - GPIOs, interrupts/ Interrupt Service Routine -(ISRs), use of pre-silicon (from software based simulations, FPGA implementations, and gate-level emulation systems) and post-silicon environments, as well as familiarity with debugging low level embedded systems via ad hoc and formalized methods such as using Joint Test Action Group - (JTAG)/Lauterbach debuggers.The firmware work on upcoming versions of the product will build on existing products as well as building new code and runtime frameworks, as well as develop firmware for new hardware subsystems. Successful candidate will leverage experience primarily in C, with additional tooling in scripting languages. Additional responsibilities include creating test and automation code built in python and in frameworks such as ROBOT for test automation. The position will own significant feature areas and is able to refine requirements based on datasheets and other documentation.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science,Electrical Engineeringor 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.
• 5 years professional experience in embedded firmware development or device driver development
• Experience developing tests for firmware or device drivers
• Experience with one or more embedded communications protocols (SPI, I2C, UART, etc.)

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 Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Experience with ARM architecture
• Experience with hardware debugging environments
• Experience with building firmware features based on silicon datasheets
• Experience with pre-silicon environments
• Experience with scripting languages such as Python or Power Shell
• Effective written and verbal communication & organization skills.
• Ability to work well independently and on a team. A collaborative spirit and a growth mindset.
• Customer and results oriented with attention to quality and details.
• Motivated to continuously learn and improve existing solutions.

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

• Work with hardware and other partner teams to determine system requirements
• Design firmware features to meet requirements
• Build firmware code and validation tests to deliver features
• Debug firmware defects in pre- and post- silicon environments
• Provide feedback to peers in design and code reviews
• Help maintain test and QA infrastructure
• Design, build and integrate tools to assist with deployment, monitoring and troubleshooting