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Senior Firmware Engineer
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Washington, Redmond | |
 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 globallywith 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 a Senior Firmware Engineer to help achieve that mission.As Microsoft's cloud business continues to grow the ability to deploy new offerings and HW infrastructure on time, in high volume with high quality and lowest cost is of paramount importance. The Silicon and Cloud Hardware Infrastructure Engineering Firmware Development team is responsible for design and development of Server and Rack Infrastructure Firmware for Microsoft's online services. We work closely with Microsoft product groups, industry partners and researchers to architect and develop server hardware solutions that meet the requirements for our cloud services platforms at the lowest possible cost of ownership (TCO). Willingness to always learning and insatiably curious. Our teams are responsible for Firmware development and validation of server, silicon and rack infrastructure design with a focus on innovation for Azure infrastructure for Microsoft and their customers.If you are a Senior Firmware Engineer with passion for building reliable, scalable distributed systems; If you want experiene in firmware and system debug experience and like to produce impact across a large number of systems; if you have a penchant to learn and utilize your broad skill set to produce great customer impact; then this opportunity is for you - Join the Azure Firmware Center of Excellence and help us envision and build technical solutions to power Azure. You will have the opportunity to work with a team of talented engineers to deliver innovation at scale and own delivery of product to Azure datacenters.
ResponsibilitiesLead debug and root cause analysis of firmware, operating system, and driver-level failures across diverse pre and post silicon platforms in AI server domain.Develop and maintain debug templates, scripts, and automation pipelines for log collection, crash dump analysis, and compliance validation.Collaborate with cross-functional teams (firmware, silicon, OS, driver, platform) to triage bugs and align debug processes across forums along with ensuring to assist those learnings to long term roadmap improvements.Maintain and expand the firmware and OS debug knowledge base and wikis for onboarding and reference.Participate in daily syncs and debug forums to track high-severity issues and ensure timely resolution.Passionate about exploring and deploying noble methods to improve test coverage, release/test automation, and efficiency of our FW releases. | |