New 
Principal Firmware Development Engineer
 Microsoft | |
 United States, California, Mountain View | |
 Oct 16, 2025 | |
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OverviewMicrosoft Silicon and Cloud Hardware 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, Skype, OneDrive, and the Microsoft Azure platform globally with its server and data center infrastructure, security and compliance, operations, globalization, and manageability solutions. Our focus is on smart growth, high efficiency, and delivering trusted experience to customers and partners worldwide and we are looking for a Principal Firmware Development Engineer to help achieve that mission. Are you passionate about working on cutting edge technology in a team that embodies the growth mindset? Are you hoping to join an organization which is built on a mission "To empower every person and organization on this planet to achieve more"? The Firmware Center of Excellence is responsible for hardware/firmware for Azure Infrastructure. We are working on the next generation AI and compute silicon with a focus on innovation in firmware technology to secure Azure infrastructure for Microsoft and their customers. We are looking for a Principal Firmware Development Engineer with a background in firmware development in embedded systems.
ResponsibilitiesDevelop compute-intensive and highly performant test applications running on the Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Accelerator (MAIA) hardware systems, focusing on PCIe, Memory, back-end network & TDP workloads. Design and develop workload profiling and analysis tools that capture and benchmark the runtimes of various compute blocks and/or hardware accelerators. Develop end-to-end post-silicon tests and tools for functional and performance scenarios of the system. Collaborate across organizations with AI Frameworks SW, Silicon & System Validation, Architecture and Firmware. | |