Principal Software Engineer

Principal Software Engineer

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership, mentor and support junior team members, fostering a culture of continuous learning and development.
• Debugging software issues, developing fixes and adding new features to existing Surface products.
• Development activities include integration and configuration management as well as designing and implementing effective solutions to improve product quality and customer satisfaction.
• An understanding of real-time, embedded firmware and strong troubleshooting and debugging skills are critical to help isolate and fix problems quickly.
• You should be able work well in a collaborative environment with peers across the company.
  

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• A BS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or related field
• OR equivalent experience.
• A minimum of 15 years of experience in software development.
• 7+ years of experience in embedded software development and Internals of PC architecture.
• 5+ years of delivering solutions with AI.
• At least 10+ years contributing to device drivers and kernel programming for consumer PCs or electronics.
• Deep understanding of the OS internals, Kernel mode and driver architecture
• Experience in design, development and debug of hardware - software integration technologies.
• Excellent C/C++ design, coding, and debugging skills, ability for scripting in Python.
• A soundtrack-record of shipping high volume consumer products and having been through at least two development cycles.
• Ability to quickly ramp-up on complex and unfamiliar code.
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Solid understanding of ACPI internals is a plus.
• Experience is working through SoC architectures, embedded firmware and protocols like USB, PCIe, I2C, SPI and platform power management or others which may appear in client PC architecture.
• Some experience diagnosing power and performance issues on a Windows device.
• Experience dealing with geographically diverse teams.
• High tolerance for ambiguity and ability to make progress in the face of it.
  

Other Requirements

• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.