The Xbox Advanced Technology Group (ATG) provides deep technical consultation and integration services to game developers world-wide as they create cutting-edge experiences for Microsoft game platforms and services. Our team also does advanced research and incubation and we are seeking an Applied Machine Learning Developer to help us bring Machine Learning techniques to gaming. If you have a strong ML/graphics background and can roll up your sleeves to do the engineering work required to ship high quality ML models in production, this is a unique opportunity to tackle challenging problems in the gaming and graphics space!
Develop high-performance machine learning systems for gaming ML scenarios and graphics techniques. Develop optimized GPU kernels for deep learning inference via DirectX and DirectML and other graphics technologies. Do analysis on performance on internal and 3PP machine learning models and propose improvements and optimizations. Develop infrastructure as required to enable high performance ML in gaming. Act as an expert in applied machine learning to serve the needs of Game Developers
Required Qualifications: Masters or PhD or equivalent experience in relevant discipline (Machine Learning, Computer Science, Engineering) 3+ years of relevant work experience Experience in GPU programming (DirectX, Vulkan, OpenCL, etc) and performance modelling, profiling and optimization. Preferred Qualifications: Game Development experience - one or more shipped titles. Experience with Azure cloud services. Experience with Mobile/Tablet machine learning development