Summary
Date Posted: Wednesday, April 06, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Microsoft Windows Engineer

Overview
Are you passionate about improving customer battery life/power consumption/thermals and making applications run faster? Are you passionate about understanding the intricacies of the operating system and improving it to delight our customers? Are you passionate about reducing carbon footprint impact from software energy use? Our team works on the full stack across hardware partners, OS, Shell, applications, and ecosystem to protect, improve and manage battery life and performance every release across Windows and Devices. The skills that we apply are of a correspondingly broad range, including trace analysis and automated bulk trace processing tools, Data pipelines/reports, machine learning and statistical data analysis, OS system design, as well as user- and kernel-mode development. Our work is data-driven with a sharp focus towards achieving excellence.

Our Ideal Candidate is:
• Self-Driven, experienced at solving complex problems.
• Curious about Systems (OS, hardware/software interactions) and insight generation from big data.
• Strong Communication and Collaboration Skills

Responsibilities
• As an engineer on the team, you will characterize how software and hardware behave (both locally and at scale) through analysis of telemetry/trace data, identify issues/opportunities and work with the feature teams to evaluate/implement optimizations, across the software/hardware stack for Windows and Devices. Your work will range from improving customer satisfaction along the dimensions of performance, power and reliability delivering optimizations. The set of tools/technologies we use to achieve our objectives include C, C++, C#, scripting, kernel code, Cosmos/Kusto/Asimov and trace processing applications in Azure, python, machine learning models (linear regression and others), Power BI, statistics, Windows Performance Analyzer, ETW tracing, low-level silicon and OS tools and power instrumented hardware.
• You will play a direct role in enabling critical initiatives for Microsoft’s success in a variety of form factors and platforms.

Qualifications
Required:
• 7+ years of software development experience.

Preferred:
• Analysis capabilities towards optimizing systems.
• Knowledge of power or performance areas.
• Solid design, programming, and problem-solving skills.
• Proficiency in at least one programming language (C, C++).
• BS degree in CS or related engineering field.
• Ability to deal with ambiguity and prioritize investments leveraging data.
• Strong technical leadership and collaboration/communication skills.

Education Requirement: No Requirements

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 84

Job application procedure
Interested and qualified? Go to Microsoft on careers.microsoft.com to apply

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