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 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 Scene Understanding team’s charter is to understand the real world and convert this understanding into a programming model that is natural for developers to work with. We are a mix of top engineers, computer graphics, computer vision and deep neural network experts that work together to build the most unique, impactful, and innovative environment sensing technology in the world.

We are looking for an individual with strong mathematics and computational geometry background to push the state of the art in geometric reconstruction and reconciling traditional CV methods with results from deep learning and semantics. As a member of the Scene Understanding team, you will partner with the broader EU (Environment Understanding) team that enables all forms of environment tracking and sensing for mixed reality from localization and mapping, object tracking and cloud-based localization. We are building the technology that drives the future of the mixed reality space.

For more information, please see Scene understanding - Mixed Reality | Microsoft Docs

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Responsibilities

We are looking for an applied CV/computational geometry expert to innovate in the space of advanced reconstruction for mixed reality platforms. We are primarily looking to boost our existing geometric pipeline to provide added value and benefit to our customers. Ideal candidates are strong engineers who have aptitude in the spaces of computational geometry and graphics but want to apply/merge these with innovations in deep learning and mixed reality.

Successful Candidates Have The Following Skills

• Have deep knowledge of graphics/CV research but love building products and refining research into reality.
• Have interest in multi-disciplinary CV, including multi-view-stereo, point cloud/geometry processing, deep learning.
• Are interested or have experience with code optimization, optimized numerical methods etc..
• Have experience with or understand the needs and problems of 3D software development especially in the mixed reality space.
  
  

Given how varied and multi-disciplinary our roles are, we are not looking for someone who’s an expert in all these areas. If you are talented, excited, and eager to learn we will find a place where you can contribute today, and work with you to grow more broadly.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Master's or higherdegree inComputer Scienceor equivalent industry experience.
• Proven experience building and shipping CV/Computational geometry solutions.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals, software patterns, understanding memory access patterns etc…
• 5 years+ experience shipping and servicing software products
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience writing modern C++ code.
• Experience with 3D graphics and/or 3D APIs
• Strong mathematics background, specifically in the fields of non-linear optimization
• Aptitude working in scientific computing and scientific programming languages/frameworks e.g. Mathematica, MATLAB, SciPy
• Experience training or working with Deep Neural Networks and/or machine learning.
• Experience with 3D graphics and rendering pipeline
  
  

Requirements

These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role.

• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
  

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

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