Software Engineer, Camera System, Pixel

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 1 year of experience with software development in one or more programming languages (e.g. C++).

Preferred qualifications

• Master's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.
• Experience with programming languages in C, C++, and Python.
• Experience with Unix/Linux environments and the development of Linux device drivers.
• Experience with developing/productizing intelligence based features and multi-sensor systems (e.g. sensor synchronization).
• Experience with camera sensors, ARM, or other low-power SoC architectures.
• Experience with optimizing software/hardware systems for power, latency and memory use.

About The Job

Google's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. Our products need to handle information at massive scale, and extend well beyond web search. We're looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas from all areas, including information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking and data storage, security, natural language processing, UI design and mobile; the list goes on and is growing every day.

As a software engineer, you will work on a specific project critical to Google’s needs with opportunities to switch teams and projects as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve. We need our engineers to be versatile, display leadership qualities and be enthusiastic to take on new problems across the full-stack as we continue to push technology forward.

In this role, you will be leveraging a comprehensive suite of proprietary technologies. including silicon, Android, Pixel camera Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL), algorithms, TPU, and Google LLM. You will develop innovative Pixel camera features. Your involvement will span the entire development lifecycle, from initial conceptual design and prototyping to early hardware bring-up, testing, deployment, and performance optimization.

As part of a global team, you will work closely with cross-functional partners in various locations, offering significant room for professional advancement. There is no requirement of prior experience working on embedded camera systems.

Google is an engineering company at heart. We hire people with a broad set of technical skills who are ready to take on some of technology's greatest challenges and make an impact on users around the world. At Google, engineers not only revolutionize search, they routinely work on scalability and storage solutions, large-scale applications and entirely new platforms for developers around the world.

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Responsibilities

• Partner with internal and external Google teams to improve Pixel camera experiences and productize new features.
• Contribute to the Pixel camera HAL development and testing. Renovate multi-camera software frameworks to enable more advanced use journeys.
• Ensure a uniform experience for both first-party and third-party users by maintaining Android Application Programming Interface (API) compliance.
• Create intelligence and relevant algorithms, followed by iterative refinement and deployment to Pixel devices. Overhaul the camera user experience by integrating the most advanced Large Language Model (LLM) technologies.
• Uphold rigorous standards for privacy and security and optimize the feature/CUJ performance, power and memory, exploring emerging technologies and contributing to next-generation silicon design.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.

See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form .