Are you passionate about improving battery life/power consumption/thermals/carbon footprint and making applications run faster on a 1.5B Windows devices? Are you driven to understand the intricacies of how hardware, operating system and apps work and improving it to delight our customers? Do you love understanding how AI hardware, OS platforms and features on the client work and ensuring we can deliver delightful AI driven experiences while continuing to maintain/improve power/battery life?

The Windows  Fundamentals Team works on the full stack across hardware partners, OS, Shell, applications, and ecosystem to protect, improve and manage battery life and performance every release across Windows and Devices. The skills that we apply are of a correspondingly broad range, including deep collaboration with platform and feature teams using trace analysis and automated bulk trace processing tools, telemetry data pipelines and reports, machine learning and statistical data analysis, OS system design, as well as user- and kernel-mode development to shed light on where improvement opportunities lie. Our work is data-driven with a sharp focus towards achieving excellence.

We are seeking a self-driven Senior Software Engineer with a knack for solving complex problems.  In this role, you will use your curiosity about systems (OS, hardware/software interactions) and leverage insights generated from big data to improve customer satisfaction across of power, performance and reliability delivering optimizations. You will play a direct role in enabling critical initiatives for Microsoft’s success in a variety of form factors and platforms.

The set of tools/technologies we use to achieve our objectives include C, C++, C#, scripting, kernel code, Cosmos/Kusto/Asimov and trace processing applications in Azure, python, machine learning models, Power BI, statistics, Windows Performance Analyzer, ETW tracing, low-level silicon and OS tools and power instrumented hardware.

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