Principal Software Engineer

## About the role - Define and drive firmware architecture for Silicon firmware libraries for ANC, Compute, and SoC infrastructure subsystems. - Influence microarchitecture decisions by working closely with silicon architects during specification and design phases. - Lead firmware strategy across multiple silicon generations and platform programs. - Provide technical leadership across firmware, hardware, validation, and software organizations. - Develop silicon firmware libraries in C/C++ for Compute engines, ANC sub system, DMA Engines, and other similar IP blocks. - Develop scalable and maintainable firmware frameworks and APIs. - Lead first-silicon bring-up activities. - Drive root-cause analysis for firmware, hardware, performance, and validation issues. - Define firmware verification requirements and test plans. - Lead cross-team initiatives spanning firmware, silicon architecture, software, security, and system integration. - Create engineering alignment across geographically distributed teams. - Collaborate with Azure hardware, platform software, systems, and validation organizations. - Represent firmware technical direction in leadership and architecture reviews. - Develop engineering best practices, coding standards, and architectural review processes. - Guide and support engineers across experience levels in their professional and technical growth. ## Requirements - Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience. - 12-15+ years of experience in firmware, embedded systems, or SoC development. - Experience as a technical lead for complex silicon or firmware programs. - Demonstrated ownership of architecture, development, and delivery of production-quality firmware. - Good Programming skills in C/C++ and Python. - Experience in CPU and accelerator architecture, ARM/RISC architectures, On Chip Interconnect. - Experience in designing Boot loader, Platform Initialization sequences, Silicon Abstraction layers. - Experience in domains like Network controllers, and high-performance compute sub systems. - Silicon bringup. - Debug and experience in using JTAG , Lauterbach TRACE32 and other debug tools. - Experience in using Emulation and FPGA ;Platforms - Experience with Azure hardware platforms. - Experience with AI accelerator silicon. - Experience with confidential computing and security firmware. - Experience working with emulation platforms (Zebu, HAPS, Palladium, Veloce). - Experience with firmware performance optimization and telemetry. - Experience in RAS, reliability, and serviceability architecture. ## Nice to have - (None specified in the source text) ## What we offer - (None specified in the source text) ## About us - (None specified in the source text)