Senior Software Engineer

Microsoft Microsoft · Big Tech · Houston, TX +1 · Software Engineering

Senior Software Engineer role focused on developing solutions for customers leveraging modern software engineering practices and cloud technologies, with a specific emphasis on AI in robotics, ROS2, industrial robots, and simulation.

What you'd actually do

  1. Collaborates with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a scenario.
  2. Drives identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.
  3. Creates, implements, optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to establish and improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI).
  4. Leverages subject-matter expertise of product features and partners with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive a workgroup's project plans, release plans, and work items.
  5. Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guides other engineers by developing and following the playbook, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions, alerting stakeholders about status and initiates actions to restore system/product/service for simple and complex problems when appropriate.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.

Nice to have

  • Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
  • Experience with ROS2
  • Experience with industrial robots (Example: ABB, KUKA, FANUC, UR)
  • Experience with simulation (Isaac Sim, Omniverse)
  • Experience with AI in robotics
  • Familiarity with industrial protocols (OPC UA, MQTT)

What the JD emphasized

  • Experience with AI in robotics

Other signals

  • AI in robotics
  • ROS2
  • industrial robots
  • simulation