Microsoft Principal Firmware Engineering Manager 

United States, Washington 

124705771

Silicon andCloud Hardware Infrastructure Engineering (CHIE) is the team behind Microsoft’s expanding Cloud Infrastructure and responsible for powering Microsoft’s “Intelligent Cloud” mission. CHIE delivers the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's over 200 online businesses including Bing, MSN, Office 365, Xbox Live, Skype,with our server and data center infrastructure, security and compliance, operations, globalization, and manageability solutions. Our focus is on smart growth, high efficiency, and delivering a trusted experience to customers and partners worldwide and we are looking for passionateengineers to help achieve that mission.

We in SCHIE’s Firmware& SoftwareCenter of Excellencethe foundational firmware that powers the Microsoft Cloud. Our firmware lights up millions of servers and racks across the globe, enabling users to do everything from running blogs to crunching through powerful AI algorithms.

lead our Firmwarethe US.You will lead a talented team of Firmware Architects who architect and design a variety of Firmware Solutions for Azure. Besides people management, you have experience with SoC Architecture and Design,SoCand creation of solutions that lieat the intersection of multiple subsystems across firmware and hardware.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 8+ 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 of experience building and leading anEngineering team.

• Experience with working from early concept of SoC Architecture, designing,and delivering on new technologies across the entire platform.

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:

• allthe following: Peripherals such as PCIe, memory interfaces, OS primitives, memory management, scheduling, interrupts, threading.

• Experience withPlatform initialization, Board support package integration, low level drivers for peripherals such as PCIe, I2C, eMMC, SPI, USB, UARTs as well as Memory Management, Scheduling,Interruptsand multi-threading.

• Experience FW Architecture and Design.

Software Engineering M6 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $161,600 - $286,200 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $209,600 - $314,400 per year.Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:

• You will be involved with all phases of product development,frominception,to microarchitecturedesign through firmware architecture and development, deployment and beyond.

• At the design phase, you will be part of a team driving the architecture, design and development of the various sub-systems including firmware development of low-level hardware interfaces and define flows for boot flows of ASICs.

• Embody our and