Role: Firmware Engineer (Windows driver development)

Location: Redmond, WA (Hybrid)

Job Type: Contract (W2)

Job Description:

Top 3 Hard Skills Required Years of Experience

1. Minimum 3 years experience with debugging on Windows.

2. Minimum 1-year Working experience with debugging hardware/firmware/software interaction during board bring-up

3. Minimum 3 years of experience with Windows Driver Development.

Hard Skills Assessments

• Expected Dates that Hard Skills Assessments will be scheduled: ASAP.

• Hard Skills Assessment Process: There will be 1 rounds of assessments before a candidate is chosen.

• Required Candidate Preparation: Candidates should be able to speak on their resume.

Typical Day in the Role

• Purpose of the Team: The team is responsible for firmware and software development for surface devices, windows drivers development, and integration and build development for the next generation of surface devices

• Key projects: Embedded Firmware and Windows OS Drivers- growing window driver and window capabilities, seeing what system is causing issues and creation resolutions.

• Typical task breakdown and operating rhythm: The role will consist of 10% meetings, 20% coding, and 70% bug triaging and windows dump analysis.

Compelling Story & Candidate Value Proposition

• What makes this role interesting? – The team makes this environment interesting, the Azure Waterfall Development process is pretty easy to set up windows milestones and projections, get to work with the next generation of surface devices, and work with technologies that are not out in the market yet. The whole surface organization is available to assist with a problem to help make progress quickly, helpful for many learning opportunities.

Candidate Requirements

• Years of Experience Required: 5-7 years of overall experience

• Degrees or certifications required: No specific degree or certification will be required for the role.

• Disqualifiers: Resumes showcasing less than 12 months of remaining access will not be eligible for the role.

• Best vs. Average: The ideal candidate would have Experience debugging on windows, window driver framework, UMDF (user mode device framework).

• • Performance Indicators: Performance will be assessed based on feedback from the team and meeting deadlines.