Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology company with headquarters in Redmond, Washington. It develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells computer software, consumer electronics, personal computers, and related services. Its best known software products are the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems, the Microsoft Office suite, and the Internet Explorer and Edge web browsers.
At Microsoft our mission and values are to help people and businesses throughout the world realize their full potential.
We are recruiting to fill the position of:
Job Title: Principal Software Engineer - Mixed Reality
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 diverse team of talented engineers, product managers, designers, 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!
The Microsoft Mesh team is pioneering the future of collaborative computing, and we are looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join the team. The ideal candidate is an engineer with a deep technical background who has shipped multiple products across multiple platforms. The Mixed Reality market is still very much emerging – the ability to operate in a fast-paced and dynamic environment is critical.
The following qualities are important to this role:
Effective communicator
Flexible
Self-motivated
A proven collaborator
Passionate about changing ambiguity into decisions
Willing 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 architects and technical leadership 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, implementation, review, and bug/issue triage of features and support well informed decisions towards business and engineering goals.
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications:
8+ years minimum experience in Software Design, Software Development, or Software Engineering or equivalent
Strong background in C, C++, C#, Java, Erlang, TypeScript, JavaScript, or Rust or equivalent object-oriented, functional, or procedural programming language.
Preferred Qualifications:
Proven experience working through the full product cycle from initial design to final product
Outstanding technical problem solving and debugging ability across technology stacks
A strong desire to create an inclusive environment to teach and mentor junior engineers
Experience building AR/VR/MR/XR applications or multiplayer games
Excellent written and verbal communications skills
A proven track record of shipping quality products on time
Experience building, maintaining, and optimizing large scale distributed systems
Software architecture and API design experience is a plus
Experience building application programming models.
Benefits and Perks
Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.