Senior Firmware Engineer

• 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.

Additional qualifications

• Experience with large-scale cloud infrastructure, hyperscale datacenters, Azure infrastructure, or fleet health management systems.
• 6+ years developing platform firmware, embedded software, or low-level systems software for server, embedded, or datacenter platforms.
• Strong proficiency in C/C++ with experience building, debugging, and shipping firmware solutions through full development cycles.
• Experience developing or debugging firmware-based diagnostic and validation solutions for server-class hardware.
• Ability to independently root-cause cross-stack issues involving hardware, firmware, operating systems, telemetry, and infrastructure.
• Strong collaboration and technical leadership skills, including driving discussions across multiple engineering organizations and external partners.
• Knowledge of memory diagnostics, PCIe diagnostics, storage reliability, accelerator/GPU health monitoring, or platform serviceability.
• Experience with firmware telemetry pipelines, cloud-scale diagnostic data analytics, reliability analysis, or predictive failure detection.
• Experience developing automation frameworks for validation, failure triage, manufacturing diagnostics, data collection, or fleet-scale testing.
• Experience with Rust, C#, Redfish protocols, and service-oriented architecture for firmware, diagnostics, platform management, or telemetry systems.
• Experience using AI-assisted or agentic code development workflows to improve engineering productivity, automation, validation, or diagnostics tooling.

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Firmware Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 per year.

There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $160,200 - $261,000 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.

Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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