Firmware Engineer II

Microsoft Silicon, Cloud Hardware, and Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE) is the team behind Microsoft’s expanding Cloud Infrastructure and responsible for powering Microsoft’s “Intelligent Cloud” mission. SCHIE delivers the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's over 200 online businesses including Bing, MSN, Office 365, Xbox Live, Teams, OneDrive, and the Microsoft Azure platform globally 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 passionate engineers to help achieve that mission.

As Microsoft's cloud business continues to grow the ability to deploy new offerings and hardware infrastructure on time, in high volume with high quality and lowest cost is of paramount importance. To achieve this goal, the SCHIE BIOS/UEFI CoE (Center of Excellence) team is instrumental in defining and delivering operational measures of success for hardware manufacturing, improving the planning process, quality, delivery, scale and sustainability related to Microsoft cloud hardware. We are looking for seasoned engineers with a dedicated passion for customer focused solutions, insight and industry knowledge to envision and implement future technical solutions that will manage and optimize the Cloud infrastructure.

We are seeking an accomplished Firmware Engineer II to join a team of talented engineers in BIOS/UEFI development team. This team is responsible for delivering robust, high-quality BIOS/UEFI solutions across the entire Microsoft Cloud fleet and managing them throughout their lifecycle. In this role, you will actively collaborate with internal Microsoft teams as well as external partners, including silicon vendors, to ensure our BIOS/UEFI solutions are secure, highly available, and continuously innovative.

At Microsoft, we immensely value culture, mentorship, and act as One Team. This is an opportunity to leverage your technical expertise and grow your existing experience in an innovative and highly collaborative environment where the results of your work will matter to Microsoft and Microsoft’s customers.

Responsibilities

• This role is for a highly motivated Firmware Engineer II with a background in BIOS/UEFI Firmware development for server systems. You will be contributing to all phases of product development, from design through manufacturing and productization. You will part of various server engineering projects by contributing to the architecture and design of various firmware components, including driver interface, system libraries needed for SoC bring-up, protocol and feature development of low-level hardware.