At Xbox, we are diverse, creative, and passionate about gaming. The Xbox Gaming Devices Ecosystem team focuses on designing, testing, and manufacturing all Xbox hardware and Xbox accessories. Our teams ship tens of millions of hardware products every year including the Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S, a full accessories lineup, and more. Microsoft is the destination for the brightest minds in gaming device design. We are building future Xbox hardware and accessories, come be part of what is next!

Here is your chance to join the Gaming Devices Electrical and Firmware Development team! Our team is responsible for the Electrical and FW development of all Xbox devices. As a Firmware Engineering Manager in our team, you will be responsible for the electrical system design and architecture for future Xbox products. A mix of technical breadth and depth will allow you to work cross-functionally with different disciplines (Industrial Design, Mechanical, Electrical, Thermal, Silicon, Software/Firmware, and others) to develop compelling innovative products. Our team is responsible for system/board level design of various subsystems, which includes driving simulations, prototyping, PCB layout, and selection of key components for high volume manufacturing. You will be expected to have both depth and breadth in multiple areas of electrical design, system integration, and characterization.

If you are a seasoned electrical engineer with passion for building reliable, quality products for millions of customers; if you want hands-on technical and management work, and like to produce impact across a large of products; if you have a penchant to learn and utilize your broad skill set to produce great customer impact; then this opportunity is for you - Join the Gaming Devices Electrical and Firmware Engineering team and help us envision and build technical solutions that allow gamers to play the games they want, with the people they want, anywhere they want!

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In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.

Responsibilities

This role is for a Firmware Engineering Manager with a background in firmware development for embedded systems. You will be contributing to all phases of product development, from design through manufacturing and productization. You will create the firmware for key electrical subsystems and work closely with hardware teams to ensure hardware integrates well with the firmware. You will contribute to design of various firmware components, including driver interface, system libraries needed for SoC bring-up, protocol and feature development of low-level hardware.

Responsibilities will include:

• Build and lead your team of extremely talented engineers to deliver innovation at scale and own delivery of product of Gaming Devices.

• C programing, with SoC Architecture and Design, writing low level drivers, root causing issues at the intersection of multiple subsystems across firmware and hardware.

• Collaborate with thermal and firmware teams to design thermal algorithms to balance thermals, acoustics, and performance in a system to meet product and regulatory requirements.

• SOC bring-up, bootloaders, platform initialization, board support package porting, peripherals such as PCIe, NVMe, I2C, SPI, USB, UARTs. OS primitives, memory management, scheduling, interrupts, threading.

• Embody our Culture (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/about/corporate-values) and Values (https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/culture)

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

12+ years of technical engineering experience

• OR Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field AND 10+ years of designing, implementing, and shipping high volume consumer electronics products of medium to high complexity.

• OR Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field AND 8+ years of technical engineering experience.

• OR Doctorate degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field AND 3+ years of technical engineering experience.

    *Preferred qualifications: *

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field AND 12+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, Rust, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python

• o OR Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field AND 10+ years of experience with firmware development and architecture including direct work on shipping products within the consumer electronics industry.

• 5+ years of management experience or a demonstrated ability to grow and develop teams.

• Demonstrated communication skills, including the ability to clearly express complex technical concepts in verbal and written forms.

• Demonstrable skills in C (Programming).

• Ability to debug and resolve issues spanning multiple electrical subsystems and products.

• An understanding of computer system architecture and firmware design within the Windows Operating System.

• Experience with power and performance analysis on CPU/GPU workloads including a deep understanding of power states, performance benchmarking, and power optimization.

• Technical depth in multiple areas of embedded systems and computer systems such as power delivery and management, control buses such as I2C (Inter-Integrated Circuit), USB (Universal Serial Bus), PCIe (Peripheral component interconnect express), MIPI (Mobile Industry Processor Interface), HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface) or DDR (Double Data Rate).

• Experience with hardware prototype bring-up, failure analysis, and manufacturing test environments and a demonstrated ability to sort hardware failures from software failures.

• Problem solving and debugging skills with a solid understanding of core engineering principles, fundamental circuit design, and analytical techniques are required.

• Experience with coaching or mentoring junior engineers.

• Experience with resolving ambiguity.

Electrical Engineering M5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $133,600 - $256,800 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 $173,200 - $282,200 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

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