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 a software engineer who has interest skill and propensity in low level C++, real time computational geometry and graphics. You will be part of the team that works on e2e driver and runtime bring up of our scene understanding runtime, low level optimization, and other aspects of our program.

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

Responsibilities

We are looking to build up a strong team that focuses on taking the greatest new scientific innovations and shipping them as customer products. We have a strong team working towards delivering the SU runtime and are looking for smart, passionate people with a can-do attitude who want to make this technology work for all.

We Look For Individuals Who Have Interest And Experience In Any Of The Following

We need talent to work on our computational geometry, data analytics, and machine learning data and validation pipelines. Few if any candidates have experience in all these areas but we’re looking for talented individuals with passion in the space who can work across these various disciplines.

• Software development experience for products and or services
• End-to-end integration of our technology on various platforms and tools on from device and systems level engineering to external toolchains and infrastructure.
• C++ development for real time graphics systems.
• Computational geometry background and experience.
  

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:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent industry experience 
• 3+ years of experience shipping graphics/computational geometry software
• 3+ years of demonstrated C++ expertis
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Background in graphics and or computational geometry
• Background in computer vision and signal processing
• Experience writing high performance vision code
  

We Also Love People Who Have Interest In

• Computer vision and Machine learning
• AR/VR (Mixed reality)
  

Standard

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.

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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