Description :
Job Title: Software Development Engineer
Job Category: Software Development
Product: (Not Product Specific)
Date Posted: 02/08/2008
Job Code: 216834
Location: WA - Redmond
Travel Required:
Got the latest and coolest Windows Mobile devices? Do you work on driving the design and shipping iconic HTC mobile devices while growing your career? Do you want to help our biggest Windows Mobile manufacturer ship millions of Windows Mobile devices every year - like the TMO Shadow, HTC Dash and HTC Touch! If your answer to any of these is yes, then come join us! You will have an opportunity to work on shipping millions of mobile devices.
Windows Mobile is the fastest growing business at Microsoft. We are a rapidly growing team that works very closely with our top Windows Mobile manufacture to help them commercialize millions of Windows Mobile devices every year. Our team is at the cutting edge of the amazing world of mobile devices improving Windows Mobile to meet our partner demands. Your mission will be to deliver high quality features, empower latest Windows Mobile technology, and enable exciting user scenarios to help our OEM partnership tens of millions of the coolest Windows Mobile devices into market.
We are looking for a motivated, customer centric and technically strong developers who would love to learn and impact on various architectures and component areas of Windows Mobile, ranging all the way from Windows CE low-level device driver (BSP), kernel and networking, file system, radio (GSM/CDMA/3G/UMTS) to Windows Mobile applications such as shell, phone, Bluetooth, WiFi, Messaging (SMS/MMS/Email), multimedia, and Mobile browser etc. You will work closely with HTC engineering teams and leadership to greatly influence their product plan and roadmap to optimize HTC and MCB's success. In addition, you will have the opportunity to directly impact the release schedule, device volume and interface with our top OEM partner HTC to help them bring their devices to market, more quickly. Becoming proficient in quickly understanding and impacting system-wide architectures will be part of your challenge. You will be using your quick learning abilities, great coding skills and debugging techniques to investigate various technical problems, make architecture changes, develop new features and provide fixes to help HTC ship a quality, well designed product. This is a great opportunity for you to get exposed with a breadth of the latest cutting-edge Windows CE/Windows Mobile technologies.
Basic qualifications include:
3 + years experience with software design (coding , C/C++, debugging, etc)
Experience completing at least one product ship cycle.
BS/BA degree in Computer Science or a related discipline
Knowledge of Windows Mobile is a plus but not required. Other preferred qualifications include experience on various architectures and component areas of Windows Mobile
The ideal candidate will also have versatility to work on new technologies and different components for different releases. Passion, strong focus and willingness to learn will bring you success on the team.
About Microsoft Entertainment & Devices
Microsoft Entertainment & Devices (E&D) is a unique community of smart and passionate people who truly enjoy tackling technology's biggest challenges and driving the innovations that impact how the world lives, works and plays. We are committed to recruiting, developing, and retaining people who want to be part of the E&D story.
Microsoft's Entertainment & Devices (E&D) mission is to deliver digital lifestyle experiences that are designed for a community of users. We call this Connected Entertainment. Connected Entertainment enables people to experience a broad spectrum of entertainment content across a range of devices - They can interact with that content, personalize it, and share it with their friends and social communities.
Microsoft's Entertainment & Devices (E&D) story is comprised of our distinct businesses: Music - Zune music device & the Zune Music Marketplace; Gaming - Xbox 360, Xbox Live, as well as, 1st Party Game Publisher, Windows Vista Games; Video - Microsoft TV & eHome featuring Mediaroom, Windows Media Center and HDI; Communications - Windows Mobile Platform & Services for Smartphone's & PDAs' and Specialized Devices & Applications - Mac: Office & Windows Embedded; Surface Computing, PC Hardware (mice, keyboards & webcams), Windows Automotive (the new Sync product).
In addition to our business pillars, Microsoft's Entertainment & Devices (E&D) is responsible for the entire Microsoft Manufacturing and Supply Chain and provides logistics for the US Retail Channel. The mission of the E&D Manufacturing & Supply Chain group is to deliver World-Class End-to-End Solutions that Maximize Value in each of the businesses that we support, whether it's Xbox® or Zune®; hardware or consumer software; or any other product platform we choose to pursue.
Microsoft offers an excellent benefits package to full-time employees including medical, dental, vacation, employee stock purchase plan, and 401k, plus some great extras including: our 24-hour nurse line, stay fit program, product discounts, and paid infant care leave. All part of our commitment to our most important asset: our employees.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer (EOE) and strongly supports diversity in the workforce.
