Principal RSDE Microsoft
Redmond, WA

Job Description

The Microsoft Research (MSR) Redmond Lab's Central Engineering Team, develops software & hardware that bring Microsoft Research innovations to life. The team's mission is to aid the transition of late-stage MSR technology into Microsoft products and to develop, deploy, and refine prototype software based on research ideas in order to stimulate new thinking. Our teams build research demonstrators, transfer research products into the main Microsoft product groups, and build large scale prototypes with customers.

Our projects cover a wide range of technologies spanning topics such as cloud computing, information management, natural user-interfaces, distributed & realtime systems, multimedia, real-time communications, web services, App Store development, Virtual/Augmented Reality, AI, IOT.

In one project you may be engineering breakthroughs in keeping sensitive data private; mobile software to detect emotion and health state of patients; develop post-quantum encryption for machine learning algorithms; or create Auto correction ML for detecting Excel formula entry errors. What more variety could you desire!

Required Qualifications:

* 12+ years of commercial engineering experience with C++, C#, .NET or Java
* BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent field

Preferred Qualifications:

* Highly motivated, self-starter and team player.
* Solid, broad-based CS fundamentals
* Strong ability to learn, analyze and solve hard problems
* Great team member, collaborator and communicator within diverse and majority-minority teams

Bonus points for any:

* Crypto, security or privacy knowledge
* Database and streaming technologies
* Machine Learning knowledge
* Financial Services or similar commercial experience

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.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

We are looking for a Software Design Engineer who has a broad range of skills including the ability to work at all levels of the stack. You should find engineering code a passion, enjoy engineer complex software from scratch, and have the ability to synthesize new software from a broad range of sources. Learning and applying new domains and concepts should be your passion.