Principal DSP Software Engineer

Do you have a strong inventive spirit? Are you passionate about research and making it a reality through product development? Do you want to create something the world has never seen, yet people cannot live without? Are you excited about straddling the line between research and engineering?

Join the Applied Sciences Group and help create the future of Microsoft's hardware and software businesses. For this opening, we are looking for a Principal Software Engineer to be a hands-on tech lead for the Microsoft Voice Clarity audio capture pipeline. The candidate should have demonstrable experience with algorithms for real-time audio processing. You will work with a multi-interdisciplinary team, with the goal of creating the next generation of devices and user experiences.

Responsibilities:

• Lead scoping, definition, architecture, design and implementation of features
• Review architecture, designs and code for quality and adherence to technical standards
• Plan and prioritize work, from prototype to production
• Collaborate with partner teams on research, development and planning
• Mentor, guide and help unblock others

Qualifications:

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.

Preferred experience

• Fluency in C++ software development and experience owning production code
• Prototyping in MATLAB or Python
• Solid foundation of signal processing, matrix linear algebra and machine learning
• Design and implementation of speech enhancement algorithms (e.g., beamforming, sound source localization, echo cancellation, noise reduction, blind source separation, spatial audio)
• Real-time processing with architecture-specific optimizations for CPUs, GPUs or DSPs
• Understanding of silicon architecture and how high-level language primitives relate to data bandwidth, processing latency and instruction set
• A strong drive to experiment, prototype and improve.
• The ability to clearly communicate what work you have done, why it was important, and how it was different from other projects.
• Creativity coming up with ideas and clever solutions to problems, as well as turning around and building them.
• Ability to work in ambiguous uncharted areas and having the experience, creativity and technical depth to identify technical gaps, acquire missing information, align requirements and pick the right direction.

Software Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $133,600 - $256,800 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 $173,200 - $282,200 per year.

Learn more about base pay ranges and pay equity: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

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.

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