Principal Software Engineer
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Overview
In Mixed Reality, people—not devices—are at the center of everything we do. Our tech moves beyond screens and pixels, creating a new reality aimed at bringing us closer together—whether that’s scientists “meeting” on the surface of a virtual Mars or some yet undreamt-of possibility. To get there, we’re incorporating groundbreaking technologies, from the revolutionary Holographic Processing Unit to computer vision, machine learning, human-computer interaction, and more.
We’re a growing team of talented engineers, program managers and artists putting technology on a human path across all Windows devices, including Microsoft HoloLens, the Internet of Things, phones, tablets, desktops, and Xbox. Our team has people from a wide variety of backgrounds, identities, previous work histories, life experiences, and we are eager to maintain and grow that diversity. Our varied backgrounds and unique experiences enable us to be better at building the best solutions for our customers and make for dynamic and joyful collaborations with colleagues!
If you are passionate about groundbreaking Mixed Reality technology and want to work on a team dedicated to a culture of inclusion, growth mindset and collaboration, we need you!
The Mixed Reality Systems Engineering team has an immediate opening for a highly motivated Senior Software Engineer who has experience contributing to the design, implementation, bring-up, and validation of subsystems on our products.
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications:
- A minimum of a Bachelors degree in Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent alternative education, skills, and/or practical IT work experience is required
- 10+ years of relevant software design and development experience
- 5+ years of demonstrated writing performance critical code in C/C++
- This position requires access to export-controlled commodities, technical data, technology, software, and services governed by the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR). Due to contractual limitations and ITAR obligations associated with this role, U.S. citizenship, U.S. legal permanent resident status, or protected person status under 8 U.S.C. § 1324b(a)(3) is required
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience in design, coding, and debugging skills.
- A strong technical background and solid foundation in software engineering principles and architecture design.
- Ability to be a technical Lead for project to drive collaboration across multiple components and lead junior engineers in the team.
- Outstanding technical problem-solving skills.
- Windows or Linux device driver development.
- Excellent written and verbal communications skills.
- Hardware bring-up and Manufacturing.
- Display subsystem bring-up and validation.
- Simple Peripheral Bus (I2C, SPI, UART, MIPI).
- GPU Programming.
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:
Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
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Responsibilities
- Firmware and driver development with a focus on the Display subsystem.
- Development of mathematical models relating to optics and luminosity.
- Develop, test, debug, and improve our measurement tools.
- Assist with hardware bring-up and device manufacturing.
- Work in close partnership with a team of cross discipline peers including design, hardware, PM and Quality Engineering, and manufacturing for sustained long term success.
- Maintain a focus on enabling customer, developer and IHV scenarios.
