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Principal Firmware Engineering Manager

Microsoft· Firmware Engineering
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Redmond, WA, Hillsboro, OR, Mountain View, CA, Austin, TX$165.6k - $296.4kFull-timePosted 4d ago

About the role

Microsoft SCHIE is seeking a Principal Firmware Engineering Manager – Diagnostics to lead firmware development and diagnostics for server, silicon, and rack infrastructure, driving architecture, design, and end-to-end firmware debugging across the Azure infrastructure.

Responsibilities

  • You will be involved with all phases of product development, from microarchitecture design through firmware architecture and development and diagnostics.
  • 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 ASIC.
  • You will be responsible for firmware level diagnostics and debug as part of end-to-end firmware development and debug.

Qualifications

  • Doctorate in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 7+ years technical engineering experience OR Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 10+ years technical engineering experience OR Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 12+ years technical engineering experience OR equivalent experience.

Skills

Nice to have:Peripherals such as PCIe, memory interfaces, OS primitives, memory management, scheduling, interrupts, threadingHardware/Firmware Security primitivesPlatform initialization, Board support package integration, low level drivers (PCIe, I2C, eMMC, SPI, USB, UARTs)Data Center technology architectureCross-team collaboration with external partner teamsEmbedded software design and development
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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