Senior Software Engineer, Pixel Camera

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages.
• 3 years of experience with performance, systems data analysis, visualization tools, or debugging.
• 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 1 year of experience with software design and architecture.
• Experience developing software applications using the C++ programming language.
• Experience with object-oriented programming, templates, and the Standard Template Library (STL).

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field.
• 5 years of Programming experience in C, C++, and Python.
• 5 years of experience with Unix/Linux environments and the development of Linux device drivers.
• 2 years of experience with Camera Sensors, ARM or other low-power SoC architectures.

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, artificial intelligence, 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.

Google's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. The Android and Pixel Camera team is a collection of sub-teams organized around different parts of the camera stack, with some teams focused on Pixel specifically and some focused on the wider Android ecosystem, our mission is to build software experiences on the Pixel phones that leads the entire Android ecosystem. We are a team that's passionate about building the world's best cameras and camera experiences to delight our users, partnering with teams across Google.

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. From Google Ads to Chrome, Android to YouTube, social to local, Google engineers are changing the world one technological achievement after another.

Responsibilities

• Develop Pixel camera system software.
• Develop software stack to support Android camera Hardware Abstraction Layer(HAL).
• Develop Pixel camera peripheral drivers (Image sensor, OIS, VCM, EEPROM, Flash, etc).
• Enable advanced Multi-Camera software frameworks and related use cases.
• Optimize Pixel camera performance, power, and memory, and develop related tools. Explore and prototype emerging technologies.