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 diverse groundbreaking technologies from sensors, computer vision, machine learning, human-computer interaction, and more. We’re a growing team of talented engineers and artists putting technology on a human path across Holographic devices.

The Mixed Reality Systems Engineering team has an immediate opening for a highly motivated Principal Software Engineering Lead with embedded/wireless experience and experience leading a team of engineers to design, implement and ship high quality software.

Responsibilities

• Lead a development team of embedded software engineers to delivery high quality software for several cognition products.
• Provide coaching and mentoring to engineers on the team
• Design and implement drivers in windows and linux
• Work in close partnership with a team of cross discipline peers including design, hardware, PM, and Quality Engineering for sustained long term success.
• Help define the next generation of Mixed Reality devices
  

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.
  

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

• 10 years' minimum experience in software design or development
• 3 years' minimum experience as a lead or manager of a development team.
  

Preferred Qualifications

• A minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Software Development, or a related field, or equivalent alternative education, skills, and/or practical experience
• Experience working with embedded systems
• Outstanding technical problem solving skills.
• Excellent design, coding, and debugging skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills.
• Wireless protocols
• Writing performance critical code in C/C++.
• Windows or Linux device driver development
• Hardware bring up and Manufacturing
• BSP and OS image creation
• DSP/FPGA/firmware development
• GPU programming
  

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