GitHub helps companies, organizations, and groups of individuals succeed by allowing them to build better software, together. The successful launch of GitHub Copilot in June 2022 has demonstrated the possibilities of AI-assisted software development.
The engineering organization is now looking for developers to join the Copilot IDE team to work on the different editors that Copilot supports.
The main responsibility of the Copilot IDE team is to deliver the GitHub Copilot IDE extension in a range of supported editors. Currently these are Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio, the JetBrains suite of editors (such as IntelliJ IDEA and PyCharm) and Vim/Neovim.
The Copilot IDE team has close partnerships with the teams responsible for Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code within Microsoft’s Developer Division. It also has strong links with GitHub Next, a research team within GitHub investigating the future of software development, where Copilot was originally incubated.
The Copilot team is highly distributed and the right candidate will thrive in an environment of asynchronous communication. We expect you to have excellent written communication skills and be able to create working relationships with coworkers in locations around the globe.
Responsibilities
- Maintain and develop new features for the various different Copilot IDE extensions with a primary focus on the Copilot VS Code/JetBrains extension
- Contribute to new IDE plugins that deliver the GitHub Copilot functionality
- Collaborate closely with other parts of the wider Copilot team
- Explore new ways of presenting Copilot’s output, collaborating with external IDE teams as needed.
Required Qualifications
- Many years of experience in professional software development
- A few years of prior experience developing IDE extensions
- A few years of professional development experience in one of the following fields:
- Developer tooling
- Program/static analysis
- Compilers and compiler construction
Preferred Qualifications
- Extensive experience developing larger IDE plugins
- Development experience with TypeScript, Java or Kotlin
- Experience developing IDE or editor tooling
- Interest in modern AI/machine learning technologies and program synthesis in particular
Location: In this role, you can work remotely from anywhere in the United Kingdom.
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