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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 2 years of experience with software architecture and C++.
Preferred qualifications:
- Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science, or a related technical field.
- 2 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
- Experience in delivering imaging system products.
- Frontier research experience in computational photography, computational optics, computer vision , or graphics.
- Proficiency in C++ and navigating large-scale code base, and GPU, DSP, edge TPU programming and optimization.
- Excellent communication, collaboration, and execution skills.
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.
The Pixel Camera Algorithm team is dedicated to providing advanced Pixel camera quality by utilizing advanced imaging systems and algorithms that encompass machine learning, generative AI, and computational photography. Our comprehensive responsibilities cover the entire imaging pipeline starting from sensor raw data through to the completed image focusing in image quality optimization, new feature development, on-device optimization and development tooling. We work in close cross-functional partnership with the Research, Silicon, Product, and UX teams. These collaborations facilitate the implementation of innovative hardware technologies and play a critical role in shaping the roadmaps for future Google Tensor SOCs and Pixel hardware. Our objective is to uphold the Pixel brand's reputation for pioneering camera excellence, continually advancing mobile photography to provide users with an exceptional imaging experience.
Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. Our Devices & Services team combines the best of Google AI, Software, and Hardware to create radically helpful experiences for users. We research, design, and develop new technologies and hardware to make our user's interaction with computing faster, seamless, and more powerful. Whether finding new ways to capture and sense the world around us, advancing form factors, or improving interaction methods, the Devices & Services team is making people's lives better through technology.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to the imaging algorithm and solution for Pixel Camera, and mobile imaging pipelines running on the Pixel camera.
- Participate in system design and delivery of software-based imaging pipelines optimized for Pixel devices.
- Apply C++ programming skills or machine learning knowledge to computational photography issues.
- Be familiar with image quality goals and tuning processes to support Pixel camera launches.
- Prototype, evaluate, and productize research papers in computational photography, computer vision , graphics, and generative AI.
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 .
