Technical degree, Math, EE or CS required.

You will work as part of a small, experienced team developing cutting-edge compilers and runtime systems for writing systems software using modern type- safe languages like C#. The areas that you will work on depend on your skills, experience, and interests. Some possible areas include compiler optimizations (such as optimizations for object-oriented programming languages, whole program optimization), incremental/separate compilation, code generation, typed assembly language, garbage collection, and implementing new language features. The scope and scale of your work will be commensurate with your ability and proven experience.

You will have a passion for compilers, programming languages, and finding a better way to do things. As a compiler architect, you will have proven design skills as shown by the design of an entire compiler or a major subsystem of a compiler. You will have technical leadership experience in a small group setting or across groups. You will have solid written and verbal communication skills. In addition to being a leader, you will be expected to be hands-on in your role, so you will have excellent software development skills and solid debugging skills.

Technical Strategy Incubation team, exploring evolution and revolution in operating systems. This is a fascinating area that includes devices, concurrency, scheduling, security, distribution, application model, programming model and even some aspects of user interaction. If anyone is interested in working on a deep systems incubation with a team of truly outstanding developers, please contact me.

Concurrency Incubation- The transformation of the PC into a massively parallel machine will necessitate a corresponding revolution in operating system, languages, compilers, libraries and applications. Our mission is to lead Microsoft and the industry in this revolution, and our vision is to empower developers to deliver teraflop computing to our customers.

We are looking for senior developers and Architects with deep systems expertise to help deliver systems strategy and software for the many-core future.

Many-core processors will be in desktop PCs in a year or two, but will only light up for programs and operating systems that can exploit them. To make the most of these machines we will need a corresponding revolution in operating system, languages, compilers, libraries and applications. Because of the breadth of the changes needed, the many-core virtual team has been formed with the sponsorship of Craig Mundie. The virtual team has efforts in DevDiv, Windows, and Technology Incubation. Our mission is to lead Microsoft and the industry in this revolution, and our vision is to empower developers to deliver teraflop computing to our customers.

The Technology Incubation team’s part of the project is twofold: First we have to develop and adapt system software that can manage many-core processors and efficiently support fine-grained and scalable parallel programs. There are many interesting and important programs: For example, at the lowest level, schedulers and memory managers have mostly been optimized for resource sharing (time-sliced scheduling, and virtual memory), but now we are moving to an era of relative hardware abundance, and new mechanisms and policies are needed. At the highest level, Win32 is “concurrency-unfriendly” with lots of thread- affinity and other sorts of parallel-programming problems that make it hard to write scalable (or even correct) parallel programs. This legacy will become a huge strategic problem if we can’t provide alternatives or mitigations.

The second part of our mission is to guide the evolution of the hardware. The microprocessor is undergoing a transformation to a “data center on a chip,” and new functionality needs to be designed in careful coordination with the software that will run on it. We are working with hardware partners to manage this transformation. Our responsibility is to innovate and to develop software prototypes that inform the correct design, and ultimately demonstrate the effectiveness of new features.

We are looking for a software developer with experience and deep understanding of the software and hardware challenges to help lead Microsoft and the rest of the industry through the many-core transformation. Current code-bases include Windows, Viridian, and Singularity. Successful candidates should have 5+ years experience of operating systems, virtualization technology, driver development or HPC/parallel programming. An MS or Ph.D. and/or a publication history in these or related fields would be highly desirable.

The Visual C# team is looking for an exceptional developer to work on our core compiler and language tool architecture. In addition to delivering world class languages, compilers and tools, we invest in efforts that help us advance the state of the art in code focused development. We take great care to work with customers, respond to changing technologies and shape the future of C#.

You will be a key member of a team responsible for designing critical APIs and technologies, driving investigation/prototypes/etc, and folding the results into shipping products. You will be working with very strong architects, engineers and researchers, often working across organizational boundaries.

The top 1,500 ISVs generate over 80% of worldwide software revenues. In addition to driving the global Windows ecosystem, these companies are directly responsible for $5B-$7B of yearly Microsoft revenue. Central to the success of these customers, as well as Microsoft's own internal development, is Visual C++. Given the strategic importance of the ISV segment, the Visual C++ team is on a mission to revolutionize our toolset in providing a much more productive and successful native developer experience.

We are looking for a strong Visual C++ Development Manager to drive adoption and satisfaction among professional C++ developers. We are in the starting phase of a major reinvigoration of the experience for C++ and native development targeting very large and complex development projects. The added demands of security and the advent of many-core processing create significant challenges and opportunities to create market leading technologies and tools.

The Visual C++ team is working hand in hand with the Windows division on enhancing the appeal of Vista and Windows 7 for ISV developers and with the CLR team to create a technology stack that allows layering of services to provide a seamless spectrum from native code over type safety and garbage collection to the full .Net stack.

Responsibilities

The Visual C++ DM position features leadership opportunities across multiple areas, including Technology and Architecture Leadership and Execution, Team Building and People Leadership.

You will lead a world class C++ compiler team and C++ IDE team embarking on a virtually top to bottom re-architecture of the tools stack. In addition, you will lead a libraries team that is re-inventing the MFC and client libraries for the next decade together with the Windows WEX and Developer Division UIFX teams. You will grow a strong cross-PU architect team and a development organization. The Visual C++ DM plays an important role in cross-team relationships (Windows, CLR, UIFX, Office, SQL) and cross-company relationships (Intel, AMD, C++ standards work).

- 10+ years of experience working on complex or large scale development projects
- Passion for quality. A core belief that the development team is responsible for the quality of the product to the same degree as the QA team.
- Execution. Ruthless at removing inefficiencies. Proven track record in changing team culture, process, metrics and rewards to create a lean, high efficiency, development organization.
- Can-do entrepreneurial attitude. Permeates team with a sense of purpose working together to delight our customers with industry leading, innovative, high quality releases. Uses metrics only to further this aim instead of as a stand-alone target.
- Cross-group communication. Is a major positive force personally to bring together core teams from a technical and execution point of view. Is able to execute in the hub of a hub-and-spoke model to deliver customer value working with teams not under reporting influence.
- People Leadership. Track record of building and growing high-performing product development teams.
- Deep understanding and passion for developers as customers.
- Strong technical background in compilers, development tools, core library design or other systems-level development. Good knowledge of C++, current HW trends and ISV technical challenges.

Job responsibilities include:
Working closely with the development and program management to impact design of VB 9.0 language features.
Working closely with the Test Lead to help define the compiler test direction and strategy.
Getting a deep understanding of the VB language features and writing automated tests for these.

A little more about the VB team: We are building technologies that make millions of developers more efficient every day. We want to make programming easy and fun. We're a great place to get a deep understanding of VB, .NET and some of the newest technologies at Microsoft. We will help you grow and realize your career aspirations. Developers are our customers and we are developers. We believe innovation is the key to also solving the testing problem. We allocate time to creative ideas for tools and test approaches.

Job responsibilities include:
Leading, managing and growing a team of strong SDETs
Working closely with development and program management in project planning and scheduling
Leading the design and implementation effort for the test infrastructure and strategy for this project.

Working in our Code Generation group this is a new position with Microsoft developing core compiler technology. We are looking for a bright individual with a compiler background experienced with compiler optimization, run time environment development, register allocation and/or basic code generation. Responsibilities include designing and developing software for Microsoft's next generation Compiler and JITs and PRE-JIT's for Microsoft’s Common Language Runtime (CLR). There are also opportunities to help bring compilers and JIT’s to the new emerging Win64 platform, by developing new optimization technology in a JIT and PreJIT.