Duration: 6+ months
Typical Day in the Role
- Purpose of the Team: The purpose of this team is to support in market products – bug fixes and feature revisions.
- Key projects: This role will contribute to take bug repro’s and autonomously debug and find root cause and deliver high quality fixed code – across Surfaces complete in market product portfolio.
- Typical task breakdown and operating rhythm: The role will consist of 70% working on bugs, 20% updates, management, working with others, and 10% miscellaneous
Compelling Story & Candidate Value Proposition
What makes this role interesting? - This role provides the opportunity to hands on working with customer based products and opportunity to be working along side other embedded software engineers at a consumer hardware company. This is a highly visible role with direct customer impact and the team has strong group collaboration, all helping each other and aiming to achieve the same goal.
Candidate Requirements
- Years of Experience Required: 5+ overall years of experience in the field.
- Degrees or certifications required: Minimum BS in Computer/Software Engineering or related field.
- Disqualifiers: lack of experience in the tech industry. 18 months access only.
- Best vs. Average: The ideal resume would have
- Performance Indicators: Performance will be assessed based on quality of work, meeting deadlines, and feedback from the team.
Top 3 Hard Skills Required + Years of Experience
- Minimum 5 years experience with embedded firmware experience
- minimum 5 years experience with intel UEFI work
- minimum 3 years experience with GIT experience
Hard Skills Assessments
- Expected Dates that Hard Skills Assessments will be scheduled: asap
- Hard Skills Assessment Process: The assessment process will be 1-2 rounds.
- Required Candidate Preparation: Candidates should be prepared to speak on prior experience and resume on assessment.
UEFI SW Developer Role:
Looking for a talented UEFI engineers to deliver great customer experiences. As a UEFI engineer the candidate will take bug repro’s and autonomously debug and find root cause and deliver high quality fixed code – across Surfaces complete in market product portfolio.
The candidate will have the opportunity work with the Post Launch Engineering Dev team as well as other PLE teams, Surface UEFI engineers, electrical engineers, system engineers, architects and other software engineers to find and fix problems that are affecting our Surface customers.
Desired Skills
- Minimum BS in Computer/Software Engineering or related field.
- Minimum of 3+ years of experience contributing to the embedded firmware development for products in the consumer PC or consumer electronics industry.
- C language development experience (assembly, C# and other higher level languages as well as host level application programming a plus)
- UEFI development experience
- ACPI development experience
- Extensive use of GIT for code management
- Project Mu experience
- Python scripting experience
- Azure DevOps experience
- Proven Embedded FW architecture skills showing a deep understanding of embedded systems, IO's, I2C/SPI and other interconnect buses
- Strong problem solving and debugging skills for modern-day multiprocessor systems (able to write/debug code, use HW level code debuggers and diagnostics tools)
- Ability to use hardware debugging tools such as logic analyzers, oscilloscopes, JTAG, Flash emulators, ICE, etc. during the firmware development process.
- Ability to comprehend board hardware schematics.
- Familiarity with modern Intel processors and specifications a plus.
- Strong communication skills required, including the ability to clearly express technical concepts in verbal and written forms. Able to scale conversations from block diagrams to C-level code explanations.
- Must be able to plan work, and work to a plan adapting as necessary in a rapidly evolving environment.
- Enthusiastic, motivated and self-driven.
