Hardware Security Engineer
Overview:
You will help secure Microsoft's cloud infrastructure by developing platform security capabilities across hardware, firmware, and software. In SPARC within AHSI, you'll collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, implement, and deploy secure, scalable platform solutions. You'll build tooling and observability to improve reliability and drive security across the stack. This role offers impact on the Intelligent Cloud mission and cloud-scale hardware security.
Responsibilities:
- Define technical requirements and interface definitions for platform features and infrastructure capabilities
- Drive feature development from requirements to implementation, integration, validation and deployment
- Develop software and automation to improve platform bring-up, testing, and diagnostics
- Build and maintain engineering tools, telemetry, and debug infrastructure for observability
- Support integration and validation of platform security technologies (secure boot, attestation, hardware root of trust)
- Investigate and resolve complex system-level issues across hardware, firmware, and software
- Partner with cross-functional teams to deliver robust platform solutions and improve engineering productivity
Key requirements:
- Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field OR Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 2+ years technical engineering experience OR equivalent experience
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Strong debugging and problem-solving
- Effective communication
- Python, C/C++, Go, PowerShell or similar languages
- Experience developing engineering tools, automation frameworks, diagnostics, telemetry, or test infrastructure
- Understanding of platform security technologies (secure boot, attestation, hardware root of trust)