Software Engineer, Android Platform, Google Beam
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- Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
- Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
- Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
- Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance
- Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
- Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
- Holidays: 13 paid days per year
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, or equivalent practical experience.
- 2 years of experience with Android internals, operating systems architecture, and C++ programming.
- Experience in the full software development lifecycle, including building custom developer tools and executing system-level engineering tasks.
- Experience working on embedded systems, mobile platforms, or integrating software with custom hardware components.
Preferred qualifications:
- 2 years of experience working with the Android OS (or AOSP), specifically with a track record of successfully contributing to shipped consumer hardware devices.
- Experience utilizing metrics analysis and telemetry data to drive system performance optimization, power efficiency, and hardware health improvements.
- Experience with Test-Driven Development (TDD) methodologies to build reliable, fault-tolerant operating system components.
- Experience programming in Rust and Kotlin, along with structural knowledge of the Android Kernel or Chrome OS architectures.
- Advanced system-level debugging and troubleshooting skills, utilizing standard industry tools to diagnose and resolve complex OS and hardware-interaction issues.
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 Beam is a true-to-life communication technology that allows people to feel like they are having real face-to-face conversations, no matter the distance. Powered by realistic 3D imaging and spatial audio, and integrated with today’s leading remote video platforms, Google Beam enables users to be immersed in the moment, together. As part of this fast-paced, product-oriented team, your contributions will have a direct impact on the future of communications, applying technology to solve the deeply human problem of wanting to be together when we are physically apart.
Labs is a group focused on incubating early-stage efforts in support of Google’s mission to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. Our team exists to help discover and create new ways to advance our core products through exploration and the application of new technologies. We work to build new solutions that have the potential to transform how users interact with Google. Our goal is to drive innovation by developing new Google products and capabilities that deliver significant impact over longer timeframes.
Responsibilities
- Build and support the Android Platform System and Services to control complex Beam hardware devices, including high-resolution cameras, power management systems, 3D displays, USB interfaces, and thermal management (fans).
- Drive core Android system integration features for new hardware builds and early-stage prototypes, ensuring seamless communication between the operating system and physical components.
- Implement robust infrastructure improvements focused on device startup stability, sensor calibration, real-time health monitoring, and automated corrective actions on system failures.
- Own, design, and optimize developer workflow tools and Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines to ensure the broader engineering team can build, deploy, and test code efficiently.
- Strategize and execute the implementation of new platform-level features required for the "instant travel" 3D call experience, collaborating closely with cross-functional hardware and application teams.
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