About the role
Provide firmware
requirements and architectural guidance to hardware teams, including silicon design, board design, and platform integration teams. Create firmware architecture and
requirements that align with Azure features, service needs, and platform roadmap priorities. Define and maintain firmware subsystem interfaces, dependencies, and design principles for first party silicon programs. Partner with silicon architects, board engineers, and firmware developers to ensure firmware
requirements are feasible, testable, and complete. Develop security
requirements and threat models for firmware features, platform capabilities, and cross-domain interfaces. Drive architecture reviews and technical decisions for firmware capabilities across boot, platform initialization, manageability, security, telemetry, and recovery flows. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure firmware designs support reliability, performance, security, and operational excellence at cloud scale. Influence design tradeoffs early in the product cycle to reduce integration risk and improve long-term firmware maintainability. Support validation planning by defining expected firmware behavior, feature coverage, and acceptance criteria for platform bring-up and release readiness. Diagnose complex architecture and integration issues across silicon, board, and firmware boundaries. Doctorate in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 3+ years technical engineering experience OR Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience OR Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience OR equivalent experience. Strong coding experience in C, C++, Rust, or similar low-level programming languages used for firmware and embedded systems. Demonstrated experience defining firmware architecture and
