Microsoft's hardware teams incubate advanced technologies and build deep partnerships with internal research, product planning, and marketing teams. Microsoft ships tens of millions of hardware products every year, including the Xbox, Surface devices, HoloLens, accessories, and much more. Our opportunities represent a variety of disciplines including, but not limited to, design, verification, and performance modeling, and DevOps supporting the development of custom silicon. Microsoft's hardware teams are also expanding into new technologies such as quantum computing! We are looking for the best and brightest to join us in designing for the future!

Responsibilities

You may be involved in multiple facets of new silicon development, validation, and support including prototyping new designs in FPGA emulation systems, validating and debugging new hardware features, adapting firmware baselines, bringing up and debugging high level operating systems, performance analysis, and developing automated regression test suites.

Throughout the program you may be interacting with architects, hardware design teams, software and firmware teams, and systems teams for feature definition and refinement, hardware support, optimization, and debug.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:  

• B.S. in Electrical Engineering or related field  
• 5 or more years of experience in similar projects
• Good communication skills, self-starter with ability to facilitate cross group collaboration across Microsoft internal groups and external vendors
• Experience in board peripherals (uart, usb, PCIe, dma, iommu etc.)
• Experience in silicon bring up, boot flow, firmware and operating system debug
• Experience in external debugging JTAG
• Experience with Linux or Windows operating system Kernel and user mode applications
• Experience working across diverse teams resulting in the development of complex hardware designs

Preferred Qualifications:  

• Demonstrated proficiency in scripting languages such as Python, Bash, TCL, etc.
• Experience with C and assembly programming
• Experience in requirements gathering and specification of complex hardware designs 
• Experience with silicon bring up and debug
• Experience with firmware boot systems like UBOOT and UEFI
• Experience with Linux or Windows operating system Kernel and user mode applications
• Familiarity with lab test equipment including high speed oscilloscopes and logic analyzers
• Familiarity with silicon design flows and RTL design

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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.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.  We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.