Working with the language design team to help design new features for Visual Basic. Planning, scheduling, and developing those new features. Helping to develop the infrastructure used to build and test the product.

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.

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, 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 ideal candidate will have 6 or more years of experience designing/shipping compilers/languages, developer tools, and strong C# and C++ coding skills. A MS degree in Computer Science or a related technical field is preferred.

In order to deliver on the aggressive goals of the Phoenix project, we are expanding to the SVC (Silicon Valley) campus. This group of senior compiler developers will focus on analyses and optimization in support of concurrency, and will participate in the full range of engineering tasks involved in delivering the Phoenix infrastructure into shipping products.

Candidates must have contributed to the design and development of a shipping product, a track record of delivering high quality, and demonstrated leadership and influencing skills. A successful candidate is likely to have eight or more years of work experience and a graduate (MS or PhD) degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field. Because the Phoenix project home base is in Redmond, a successful candidate will be skilled at working across geographies, and have excellent communication and collaboration skills.

In order to deliver on the aggressive goals of the Phoenix project, we are expanding to the SVC campus. This group of senior compiler developers will focus on analyses and optimization in support of concurrency, and will participate in the full range of engineering tasks involved in delivering the Phoenix infrastructure into shipping products.

Candidates must have played a significant role in the design and development of a shipping product, with primary responsibility for one or more key components of that product. They must have a track record of setting, implementing and achieving high quality standards. Leadership experience, including effective communication, mentoring of less senior developers and influencing up and across organizations, is a requirement. A successful candidate is likely to have ten or more years of work experience and a graduate (MS or PhD) degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field. Because the Phoenix project home base is in Redmond, a successful candidate will be skilled at working across geographies, and have excellent communication and collaboration skills.

The Visual Basic compiler team is looking for a highly technical, self motivated SDET to own the quality of some very cool enhancements to the Visual Basic language which will take it to the next level. We call them LINQ (Language Integrated Queries). These features will be introduced in the next version of Visual Studio and are being built within the Visual Basic product unit. This position provides the benefits of an established team and the excitement of working on a language that touches more developers the world over than any other programming language.

Visual Basic 9.0 will offer radical improvements in its ability to work with data in all its forms: as objects, as XML, as relational data. The new features are intended to radically simplify working with dynamically typed data on the .NET platform. We will be building and enhancing the test framework based on Maddog and we pride ourselves in having close to 99% automated testing.

Job responsibilities include:
Working closely with the development and program management to impact design of C# 3.0 language features.
Working closely with the Test Lead to help define the compiler test direction and strategy.
Getting a deep understanding of the C# language features and writing automated tests for these.

A little more about the C# team: We are building technologies that make millions of developers more efficient every day. We're a great place to get a deep understanding of C# 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 Microsofts Common Language Runtime (CLR). There are also opportunities to help bring compilers and JITs to the new emerging Win64 platform, by developing new optimization technology in a JIT and PreJIT.