Principal Software Engineering Lead – Xbox Graphics
at Microsoft
Redmond, WA 98052, USA -
Start Date | Expiry Date | Salary | Posted On | Experience | Skills | Telecommute | Sponsor Visa |
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Immediate | 30 Nov, 2024 | USD 314400 Annual | 04 Sep, 2024 | 4 year(s) or above | Operating System Development,Product Lines,User Requirements,Guides,Leadership,Technical Leadership,Customer Satisfaction,System Architecture,Integration,Base Pay,Teams,Compression,Code,Languages,Graphics,Microsoft,Computer Science,Software,Collaboration | No | No |
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Description:
The Xbox Graphics team is growing and seeking a Principal Software Engineering Lead - Xbox Graphics developer who is excited to work on state-of-the-art graphics, emulation, and compression systems. Our mission is to push the game industry forward by making high performance graphics development less costly and more approachable, improving rendering capabilities, and ensuring our family of gaming customers are continually delighted by Xbox. Our diverse team works at the intersection of hardware and software to provide industry-leading game development technology. Working closely with hardware engineers and game developers, we propel the future of graphics and game development.
If leading a team of GPU architects and graphics driver, firmware, and tools developers sounds like fun, then we want to talk to you!
In Core OS, we are responsible for the Operating Systems that power Azure, Microsoft’s Linux OS, the platforms for Windows Client and Xbox, and our Windows Server ecosystem – through all of these, we support every one of our cloud businesses and billions of customers around the world. In this era of ubiquitous computing, systems software excellence has never been more important for Microsoft. High quality, high-efficiency operating systems and platform components underpin everything we do as a company, from making our systems more reliable for our customers, to increasing our competitiveness by reducing COGS, to delivering new features and capabilities to delight customers – that’s all us!
Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Python, HLSL, GLSL
- OR equivalent experience.
- 4+ years people management experience.
- 4+ years of experience working at low levels of software stack, device driver development, emulation systems, firmware, and/or integration of hardware and software.
- 4+ years of experience developing graphics, firmware, compression, or emulation systems
Other Requirements
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 12+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
- OR Master’s Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 10+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
- OR equivalent experience.
- 6+ years people management experience.
- 8+ years of experience working at low levels of software stack, device driver development, emulation systems, firmware, and/or integration of hardware and software.
- Knowledge and experience with graphics and GPU hardware
- Experience and knowledge in operating system development in either user-mode or kernel-mode development.
- Proficient communication/customer interfacing skills and the ability to deal with ambiguity and prioritize issues.
Software Engineering IC6 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $161,600 - $286,200 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $209,600 - $314,400 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
Microsoft will accept applications for the role until September 13, 2024
o Care - Attract and retain great people; Know each individual’s capabilities and aspirations; Invest in the growth of others.
- Oversees partnership with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project manager, technical lead) to determine user requirements within and across teams for multiple solutions or product lines. Leverages a variety of feedback channels to incorporate insights into future designs or solution fixes.
- Oversees teams and provides technical leadership of design, architecture, and key technical decisions. Holds ownership of products and systems, quality, and customer satisfaction. Guides efforts and design discussions for overall system architecture of entire products/solutions that are deeply complex and often ambiguous. Enables and fosters cross-team communications and resolves conflicts between teams.
- Develops best practices for others to review debugging tools, logs, telemetry, unit and functional automated testing, and other methods, and acts as an expertise for others to verify assumptions through writing and developing code proactively before issues occur and reactively as issues occur across products and multiple teams.
- Builds and maintains impactful partnerships, driving collaboration with key partners across Microsoft ecosystem of engineers. Acts as a key contact for leadership to ensure communication with partners’ expectations
Responsibilities:
- Managers deliver success through empowerment and accountability by modeling, coaching, and caring. :
o Model - Live our culture; Embody our values; Practice our leadership principles.
o Coach - Define team objectives and outcomes; Enable success across boundaries; Help the team adapt and learn.
o Care - Attract and retain great people; Know each individual’s capabilities and aspirations; Invest in the growth of others.
- Oversees partnership with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project manager, technical lead) to determine user requirements within and across teams for multiple solutions or product lines. Leverages a variety of feedback channels to incorporate insights into future designs or solution fixes.
- Oversees teams and provides technical leadership of design, architecture, and key technical decisions. Holds ownership of products and systems, quality, and customer satisfaction. Guides efforts and design discussions for overall system architecture of entire products/solutions that are deeply complex and often ambiguous. Enables and fosters cross-team communications and resolves conflicts between teams.
- Develops best practices for others to review debugging tools, logs, telemetry, unit and functional automated testing, and other methods, and acts as an expertise for others to verify assumptions through writing and developing code proactively before issues occur and reactively as issues occur across products and multiple teams.
- Builds and maintains impactful partnerships, driving collaboration with key partners across Microsoft ecosystem of engineers. Acts as a key contact for leadership to ensure communication with partners’ expectations.
Other
- Embody our Culture & Values
REQUIREMENT SUMMARY
Min:4.0Max:9.0 year(s)
Computer Software/Engineering
IT Software - System Programming
Software Engineering
Graduate
Languages including but not limited to c c c java javascript python hlsl glsl
Proficient
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Redmond, WA 98052, USA