Senior Video System Engineer Microsoft
Redmond, WA

Job Description

Are you looking to join a fast paced team delivering video and imaging solutions? Microsoft's Surface camera team is looking for a video system engineer with excellent leadership skills to deliver video and imaging solutions. As video systems engineer you will own delivery of imaging systems at a product level and contribute to our technology roadmap for the future. You will work closely with internal and external imaging partners to deliver HW and SW designs to enhance the imaging experience for Surface products.

Qualifications:

* Expert knowledge of image capture and image signal processing design.
* Working knowledge of CMOS image sensors and lenses
* Experience delivering high performance imaging systems in a high volume consumer product.

Qualifications:

* Seven years of development experience in imaging systems
* Minimum of a BSEE with either an MSEE or PhD preferred
* Demonstrated ability as a team player working in a fast paced, cross functional product development environment.
* Demonstrated ability to influence across a multiple function product team and beyond
* Excellent communication skills

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.

The video system engineer is a member of the video subsystem team consisting of other video system engineers, camera module engineers, optical engineers, electrical design engineers and color scientists delivering image capture, processing and pipeline tuning. You will work on a broader multi-function product development team where you will work cross group with internal imaging platform teams, camera and communication (Teams) applications teams and ISP teams to deliver imaging experiences that meet business requirements in terms of performance and cost for Surface products. The ideal video systems engineering candidate is an electrical engineer with formal training in image processing and with knowledge of competitive PC/mobile camera features, CMOS image sensors, lenses and the imaging software stack.

Responsibilities include:

Product delivery

* Own delivery of imaging solutions as a product's video system engineer.

o Responsibilities include sensor recommendations; develop ISP algorithms for single and multi-camera systems using RGB and IR sensors; working with internal application partners to understand imaging application requirements; work with partners to understand ISP capability of selected platforms; define and recommend new imaging features based on the abilities of the HW/SW ISP and SW stack; and work with our ISP partners to specify and deliver video system drivers that interface the HW ISP and system APIs.

Technology roadmap

o Contribute to the imaging team's development of a multi-year imaging roadmap for sensors and customer experience that spans the business roadmap.