Microsoft Principal Firmware Security Engineer 

United States, Washington 

987970140

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, computer engineering, or related technical discipline 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.

• 6+ years of firmware design and development experience.
• 6+ years of experience developing software using C, C++, Assembly and working knowledge on firmware SoC drivers’ 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:

• Experience on FIPS certification processes and validation
• Experience on Platform Root of Trust firmware solutions and architectures
• Experience in Security Development Lifecycle methodologies and security incident response support
• Experience in contributing or maintaining OSS
• 7+ years of experience developing firmware for SoCs boot loaders
• Experience developing IoT firmware solutions with ARM and RISC-V core architectures
• Experience developing APIs and device drivers with SoC HW/FW to OS SW interfaces
• A Master or bachelor's degree in computer science or computer engineering, OR equivalent work experience.
• Rust experience.

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

• Bring new perspectives to improve the security capabilities of a trusted platform with a mindset focus on customer needs.
• Support firmware development for Platform and Intrinsic Root of Trust, confidential compute stack firmware meeting security and confidential compute requirements for Azure
• Lead the design, and integration of ne firmware functionality to support new Hardware Abstraction Layer capabilities to expose SoC Security capabilities.
• Implement new feature work, debug issues, and implement fixes, with high quality designs and code that satisfy the unique constraints of platform root of trust system environments.
• Collaborate with teams across the organization and inside Microsoft, as well as externally such as silicon partners, to deliver new functionality for customers that spans multiple layers in the Azure Cloud Infrastructure product stack and participate in product-wide initiatives.
• Contribute to Dev-Ops support and initiatives to maintain high reliability and availability of the Cloud Services meeting the platform security requirements defined by Microsoft
• Provide technical leadership, coaching, and mentoring to colleagues, including participating in code and design reviews.

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