The OneDrive, SharePoint and Microsoft Teams Suzhou organization is a global development organization. We are an engineering center of excellence with a proven track-record of building enterprise-hardened, massively scalable, trustworthy services and products that delight customers. Teams, OneDrive and SharePoint Online are huge, fast-growing services with a passionate customer base, large developer ecosystem, and extensive partnerships across Azure and Microsoft 365.

Microsoft Teams product is the hub for teamwork, giving everyone in the team instant access to everything they need right in Microsoft 365. Microsoft Teams keeps all your content, tools, people, and conversations together in one place. It is the fastest growing product in Microsoft history and is growing even more rapidly given the urgent need for remote learning, communication and collaboration. As the world is challenged by isolation and social distancing protocols, individuals and organizations increasingly rely on digital means to connect to the world.

The IC3 Media AI Team is responsible for building an AI powered media stack and delivering first party camera effects for Microsoft’s most important products in Realtime communication, including Teams and Skype, which account for millions of daily calls. We have an opening for a passionate and self-motivated engineer to contribute to our cross-platform Media AI stack and ecosystem support, focusing on performance to take full advantage of the hardware in one of the largest device ecosystems.

Responsibilities

As a member of our team you will architect, design and implement real time audio and video technologies and innovations used in Teams products taking advantage of hardware capabilities (e.g., AI chip offloading). This position gives you a unique opportunity of working on state-of-the-art HW and SW video as well as collaborating with several other key communication technologies. It will also give you the opportunity to have cross company impact on the hardware ecosystem. You will be working very closely with Microsoft researchers to bring in ML/AI innovations in areas such as computer vision to the millions of Teams users.

Qualifications

- 3+ years of development experience in Android/Windows/iOS multimedia applications.
- Solid design and coding skills in Modern C++.
- Video coding and processing.
- Solid knowledge of OpenGL/OpenCL and graphics image processing.
- Competent in design and development as part large scale products, and familiar with Agile development methodologies.
- Experiences in deep learning based segmentation or generation models or bringing Machine Learning models to production is a plus.
- BS/MS degree in Computer Science/Electrical Engineering or a related discipline.

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. 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.