Microsoft Principal Firmware Architect 

India, Karnataka, Bengaluru 

216388339

Required Qualifications:

• 12+ years of professional experience architecting, designing, developing software solutions.
• Bachelor’s or higher in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electronics Engineering, or similar.
• Experience with SoC bring-up, platform initialization, Board support package porting, low level drivers for peripherals such asPCIe, I2C, SPI, USB, UARTsetc as well as Memory Management, Scheduling, Interrupts, and multi-threading.
• Experience with PCIe driver/firmware development in virtualized environment.
• Experience with Device Drivers, U-Boot, TFA, UEFI and bootloader design to boot from external media such as eMMC, SDCard etc.
• Experience with RAS Management
• Ability to debug and resolve issues spanning multiple subsystems.
• The candidate should have strong defensive coding skills.
• Excellent C/C++ programming skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with ARM Cortex-A/M/R.
• Experience with design and development of platform SW development technologies like – IPMI, Redfish, Thermal Control, Power capping, PCIe card telemetry, etc.
• Experience with design and development of firmware update protocols like – MCTP, PLDM.
• Experience with platform management security protocols like – SPDM.
• Collaboration (aligned with team, across teams).
• Experience with coaching team members and helping them grow.
• Wants new technological challenges and able to deal with ambiguity.
• Strong problem solving, debugging & troubleshooting skills, advanced design, and development skills.
• The candidate should have the capability to drive design and development of features by co-ordinating across various stakeholders and deploy the same onto Azure fleet.

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.

We are looking to hire a Principal Firmware Architect to join our team.This role is for a highly motivated Firmware Engineer with a background in Firmware development for embedded systems. You will be contributing to all phases of product development, from design through manufacturing and productization. You will create the firmware architecture for key systems and work closely with hardware teams to ensure hardware integrates well with the firmware. You will contribute to design of various firmware components, including driver interface, system libraries needed for SoC bring-up, protocol and feature development of low-level hardware.