Microsoft empowers every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more through providing cloud based, cutting edge services to the world. This is an engineering position in Azure Hardware Architecture (AHA), which is part of the Azure Hardware System and Infrastructure (AHSI) organization. The mission of AHSI is to power the world’s computer with the most advanced hardware systems and infrastructure.

Responsibilities

The AHA team is seeking a highly motivated Firmware Engineer for the design and development of server and rack manageability subsystems on high density server systems. The candidate will be involved in with all phases of product design, from manageability SOC design through bring-up and productization of the manageability solution. At the design phase, you will help define the architecture and design of bootloader and embedded kernel. You will be responsible for firmware development, including initialization code, boot loader development, drivers, protocols, and feature development of low-level embedded systems.

The candidate should have strong coding skills, debugging and troubleshooting abilities, with experience in device firmware development and system management architectures.   The successful candidate should have experience with some or all of the following: firmware development, fabric managers, board support package development, peripherals such as PCIe, I2C/I3C, SPI, USB, UARTs.  A solid understanding of Real-time OS and OS primitives, memory management, scheduling, interrupts, and threading is a must.

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent industry experience
• 6+ years of professional experience designing, developing RTOS & Linux based embedded solutions
• Proven and demonstrable skill in C, C++
• Experience with GIT
• Experienced with bootloader development
• Familiar with USB, I2C, DMA, Memory Management
• Ability to debug and resolve issues spanning multiple subsystems
• Strong problem solving, debugging, and troubleshooting skills, advanced design and development skills
• Experience with design & development of control systems is bonus

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