Operating Systems Engineer – Remote

Job Description

The Microsoft Technology Center (MTC) within the Software and Advanced Technologies Group (SATG) is searching for an OS Software Engineer

In this position, you will have the opportunity to contribute to architecture, development, analysis, and debug of operating system software enhancements for Microsoft operating systems (OS) ranging from small form-factor devices and PCs to Servers. You will be working closely with engineering and architecture leads from the product groups at Intel and Microsoft to define and enable the next generation technologies to be competitive in performance and power.

Your Responsibilities will include but not be limited to:

• Researching, implementing, and driving adoption of optimized alternatives and algorithms for Windows OS products. These optimizations will involve power and performance optimizations and feature enhancements to support advanced Intel’s microprocessors, chipsets, and platforms.
• Analyzing and debugging complex functional and performance issues in the operating system on Intel processor based platforms.
• Defining and driving processor and platform features and architecture definition into future Intel processors and platforms.

Qualifications

• A completed Bachelor’s with 3+ years of experience, Master’s degree with 2+ years of experience, and/or a Ph.D.
• Degree must be in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, Computational Sciences, or a related technical discipline
• Experience in C/C++, object-oriented programming, Driver Development, Data Structures and Algorithms (Sorting, Hashing, etc.), Software performance Optimization, and Debugging
• Significant project work in Computer Architecture, System Software and Operating System Internals

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with performance optimization tools and methodologies (VTune, Giraffe, etc.)
• Experience with Virtualization and Containers: Hyper-V, KVM, Linux, VMware, Docker, or Kubernetes
• Experience with tools such as IDES, Git, GitHub, Jira and/or Wikis
• Experience with Intel X86, X64 architecture and related platform technologies
• Experience with Intel VTOS Kernel debugging
• Experience with Driver development and Windows Driver Framework
• Experience with Knowledge of IO technologies such as PCIe, USB, Thunderbolt
• Experience with OS fundamentals, OS internals, OS-level APIs
• Experience with Intel VT/VT-dKernel debugging