Firmware Engineer at Microsoft
Redmond, WA
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Jul 28, 2026
Redmond, WA
Jul 29, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
This role involves designing, developing, and releasing firmware for Microsoft Azure's custom AI silicon (SoC) programs, covering both pre-silicon and post-silicon platforms. The engineer collaborates across silicon, hardware, architecture, and software teams to deliver secure, production-grade firmware, and participates in SoC bring-up, troubleshooting, and data center deployment support. It suits an embedded firmware engineer with hands-on Rust and RTOS experience.
Mid level · 2+ years · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 29, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (3)
The degree requirement states a Bachelor's OR equivalent experience, and a Master's OR Bachelor's + 2 years experience OR equivalent experience — because equivalent experience is explicitly accepted at every tier, no formal degree is hard-gated.
The 2+ years figure comes from the education/experience ladder ('Bachelor's AND 2+ years technical engineering experience'), not a standalone role-level experience requirement; it is used as the overall years minimum as the closest available proxy, but the posting does not state a standalone minimum years-of-experience requirement for the role itself.
OS primitives is a concept rather than a named technology and was omitted from the skills list per extraction rules; the SoC bring-up and multi-threading requirements capture the concrete technical gates in that same sentence.
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