Technical Designer - Web Frameworks at Microsoft

Job Number: 933653

Description

• Our team is looking for a technical designer who cares as much about “how” products are built as the “what.”
• We are focused on designing and building tools that enable developers to create the best experiences possible on our platform
• The Mixed Reality Toolkit has a growing following for both Unity and Unreal. Web technologies are the next frontier
• There is no bigger opportunity than empowering an ecosystem of over 20+ million web developers to begin creating experiences for Mixed Reality.
• Come and join us in delivering the next wave of holographic experiences!

Responsibilities
As a Technical Designer, you will have the following responsibilities:

• Improve the existing Mixed Reality web experience to increase engagement & reduce developer pain (documentation, tutorials, reference).
• Develop a plan to bring multiple web properties into one, shared system.
• Contribute high-quality code components and samples to web-based frameworks and toolkits.
• Partner with industry-leading Engineers, Artists, Producers, and Designers.
• Think across the organizational seams and boundaries.
• Work with state-of-the art next generation hardware, sensors, and software.

Qualifications
Required:

• 5+ years of industry experience.
• Master of app frameworks such as React and Node.js.
• Expert with webGL 3D frameworks like Three.js and Babylon.js.
• Experience designing and delivering projects including consumption of APIs from third parties.
• Experience with content management systems.
• Experience designing and building responsive and accessible web experiences that work across devices and scale for a global audience.
• Ability to understand and contribute to technical documentation.
• Awareness of current and emerging design and technology trends.
• Able to solve cross-browser compatibility issues.
• A fast learner, self-motivated, and focused; with the ability to work independently while bringing together collaborators for feedback and support.
• Excellent listening skills, with an appreciative and collaborative approach to design, and the ability to gather and respond to feedback from partners within design and develop across disciplines.

Preferred:

• Experience in back-end development.
• Familiarity with Game engines (Unity, Unreal) and/or deploying game engine runtimes to web.
• Additional programming language experience, C# and C++.
• 3D art pipeline and creation tool experience.
• GLSL or other shader experience.

Benefits and Perks

• Industry leading healthcare
• Savings and investments
• Giving programs
• Educational resources
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Opportunities to network and connect
• Discounts on products and services
• Generous time away.