Software Engineer II Microsoft
Redmond, WA

Job Description

In Cognition, 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. 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 Windows devices, including Microsoft HoloLens, Windows Mixed Reality headsets, and motion controllers. We believe in success through a compelling and comprehensive developer story for Mixed Reality platforms. If you do too, we need you!

Required Qualifications:

* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related discipline
* 2+ years of experience in C++
* 2+ years of debugging experience, including debugging of multi-threaded applications

Preferred Qualifications:

* Experience shipping customer-facing products through a whole ship cycle
* Experience with image/video processing

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.

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

What you'll do:

* Develop Mixed Reality photo and video capture and streaming on HoloLens and Windows Mixed Reality
* Enable Miracast projection of HoloLens capture to remote screens
* Own accurate costing for your engineering activities, and execute with high accountability to schedule and quality
* Drive detailed design reviews, code reviews, bug/issue triage with the feature teams, and support well informed decisions towards business and engineering goals
* Deliver software components of our products.
* Develop testing, automation, telemetry and data to track and ensure quality