Software Engineer

Employer

Job Description

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 growing a team of talented engineers, program managers and artists putting technology on a human path across all Mixed Reality devices. 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!

Responsibilities

In this role you will:
  • Work with state-of-the-art next generation hardware, sensors, and software.
  • Work on solving challenging technical problems with wide scope.
  • Partner with industry-leading engineers, artists, producers, and designers and collaborate with talented teams around the world.
  • Compose, integrate and validate various services or system components to address end-to-end customer scenarios across consumer, developer, and commercial markets.
  • Work in close partnership with a team of cross discipline peers including hardware, PM, Quality Engineering and Customer Support for sustained long term success.
  • Write well-designed, testable code.

Required

Qualifications
    • 2-5+ years of software design and development experience.
    • We have open positions at several different levels, allowing for a broad range of past experience.
    • Outstanding technical problem-solving skills.
    • Experience in design, coding, and debugging skills.
    • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
    • 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.

Let Us Know If You Have Experience With

There are plenty of other skills that are not required, but you’ll find useful in this role.
    • Writing performance critical code in C/C++.
    • Windows, Linux or Android operation system development.

#Mixed Reality

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