Principal Firmware Engineer
Technology, Data & Digital · Software & Web Development · Embedded Systems · Software Engineering
In short
Responsibilities
- Involved in all phases of product development, from microarchitecture design through firmware architecture and development.
- Drive the architecture, design, and development of security sub-systems, including firmware development of low-level hardware interfaces.
- Evaluate third-party components' security design to ensure they meet Azure's requirements for Platform Security.
Requirements
- Doctorate in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 3+ years technical engineering experience, OR Master's Degree AND 6+ years, OR Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years, OR equivalent experience.
- Proficient C programming skills.
- Experience writing low-level drivers.
- Experience root-causing issues at the intersection of multiple subsystems across firmware and hardware.
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements.
- Pass the Microsoft Cloud background check.
Desired Qualifications
- 12+ years of professional experience designing and developing software solutions.
- C/C++, RUST programming skills.
- Experienced with security and embedded software/firmware development.
- Knowledge in encryption ciphers and security protocols.
- Debugging capabilities and demonstrated experience to resolve issues spanning multiple subsystems.
- Experience with platform initialization, Board support package porting, low level drivers for peripherals such as PCIe, I2C, eMMC, SPI, USB, UARTs as well as Memory Management, Scheduling, Interrupts and multi-threading.
- Coding skills, debugging and troubleshooting abilities.
- Experience with some or all of the following: driver development, Linux driver initialization, peripherals such as PCIe, memory interfaces. OS primitives, memory management, scheduling, interrupts, threading.
- Experience with penetration testing.
Benefits
- Base pay range across the U.S. is USD $142,800 - $274,800 per year.
- Base pay range in San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area is USD $188,000 - $304,200 per year.
- Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
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Company
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1 day ago
Employment Type
Full Time
Work mode
Hybrid
Salary
US$142,800–304,200 / year
Experience Level
Senior
Locations
United States
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