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 colleagues brainstorming around a giant digital whiteboard, 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 the revolutionary Holographic Processing Unit to 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 all devices, including Microsoft HoloLens, Windows Mixed Reality headsets, Kinect for Azure, the Internet of Things, phones, tablets, desktops, Xbox, and Surface Hub. We believe Mixed Reality technology empowers every person and organization to achieve more. If you do too, we need you!

We have an immediate opening for a Principal Software Engineer. Our team is working on innovative technologies related to machine vision on Hololens devices, including image processing, video processing, camera, computational photography, motion tracking, 3D reconstruction, camera calibration, etc. We are looking for someone with solid background and passion in some of those areas. In this role you will be responsible for the design, implementation, and optimization of algorithms for a new product.

The Following Qualities Are Important To This Role

• Effective communication
• Flexible
• Self-motivated
• A proven collaborator
• Passionate for changing ambiguity into decisions
• Motivated and able to quickly learn new technologies
• Attentive to detail
  

Responsibilities

• Work in close partnership with a team of diverse and talented peers in various disciplines including design, hardware, Program Management, and Software Development for sustained long term success
• Partner with the architects and the technical leadership team to deliver solid technical designs
• Maintain an unwavering focus on our customers and the value you can deliver to them
• Closely collaborate with partner teams when engineering & business dependencies exist
• Own accurate costing for your engineering activities, and execute with high accountability to schedule and quality
• Participate actively in detailed design, code reviews, bug/issue triage with the feature teams, and support well informed decisions towards business and engineering goals.
  

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

• 10 years' minimum experience in Software Design, Software Development, or Software Engineering
• A minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Design, Software Development, or a related field, or equivalent alternative education, skills, and/or practical experience is required
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Proven experience working through the full product cycle from initial design to final product
• Outstanding technical problem solving and debugging ability
• Deep native development skills in C++ design and coding, with strong debugging skills
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills
• A proven track record of shipping quality products on time
• Experience with algorithms, mathematics, or statistics, particularly in fields related to computer vision or robotics
• Computer Graphics: GPU, DirectX, HLSL, D3D, D3D11, or OpenGL
• Computer vision, image processing, video processing, or computational photography, SLAM, Robotic Perception, Depth Cameras, Motion Tracking, Deep Learning
• Experience writing performance-critical code or SIMD processor extensions (e.g. SSE/AVX/NEON)
• Experience with mobile, embedded systems, systems on a chip (SoC), including performance and memory management
• Software architecture and API design experience is a plus
• Experience with cameras in the mobile space, camera processing pipelines, ISP tuning, or image quality fundamentals is a plus
  

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.
  

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