Microsoft Career Site Requisition #: 744972
Group: Xbox Accessories
Location: Redmond, WA
Job Description:
Join the Xbox Accessories Group and make your mark on the coolest gaming platform. Our group designs, builds, and tests all of the Accessories for the Xbox 360, including the award winning Xbox 360 Wireless Controller, Wireless Microphone, and Wireless Racing Wheel. We are looking for an experienced and creative electrical engineer who has a proven track record of managing and developing complex high volume consumer products.
Candidates should be self-motivated with a deep understanding of hardware and software system principles and the ability to lead others to implement hardware and embedded software across a variety of products and technologies.
The Xbox Accessory team is looking for an experienced electrical engineer to lead the release of new accessory products which meets high quality, tight schedule, and consumer-oriented cost targets. The qualified candidate will draw upon their experience in system design and electrical engineering to deliver world class high volume consumer products.
As the senior EE in the team, you will be responsible for all aspects of product-level hardware engineering related to product design. You will work with other in-house and contract engineers to define and document the product architecture, write technical specifications, lead design reviews, and manage development partners to deliver the final manufacturing-ready electrical design including DSP, microprocessors, analog circuitry, displays, user interfaces, and power subsystems. You will be responsible for following Microsoft’s product development processes and best practices.
Qualified candidates must have track record in designing and developing high volume consumer electronics products, from concept to manufacturing, Candidates should have a broad understanding of PC or game console architecture, extensive knowledge of hardware product development processes and quality requirements of consumer electronic products, good knowledge on hardware testing, and familiar with high volume manufacturing process and test.
As a senior member of the team, a successful candidate has effective written and oral communication skills, well-developed cross-organizational and project management skills, and excellent technical design knowledge.
Responsibilities include
· Lead hardware system architecture while working with a cross functional team to achieve optimal balance of project priorities relative to performance, extensibility, development cost, and product cost with focus on building robust, scalable solutions.
· Hardware selection and implementation (make vs. buy, microprocessor and DSP processor selection, custom ASICs, etc.)
· Firmware design and analysis
· Circuit design and analysis
Skills and Qualifications
· Demonstrated hardware engineering experience with microprocessor based systems and the ability to move from high level vision, to design implementation.
· Experience designing high volume consumer products including integration of hardware and firmware with computer interaction.
· Demonstrated experience in integrating with cross functional groups including ID, marketing, planning and user research.
· Excellent communication skills
· Demonstrated competencies in customer focused innovation, technical excellence, strategic insight, impact and influence across a product group or beyond, and passion for quality.
· Knowledge and experience with standard communication protocols such as USB or Bluetooth preferred
· BS in Electrical Engineering required and MS degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or Electrical Engineering preferred from a major university
· Minimum 15 years’ experience in hardware development and contributed to 5 - 7 product development cycles
· Must be enthusiastic, motivated and self-driven
· Position requires domestic and international travel
Sacha Sarieddine | Staffing Consultant | Interactive Entertainment Business Division | Microsoft Corp.
(425)704-8675 ext. 48675 | a-sachas@microsoft.com
