Senior Software Engineer, Android, XR Camera Experiences

About the role

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience with software development in Kotlin or C++.
• 3 years of experience with Android application development and Android

camera.

• 3 years of experience with image processing.
• 3 years of experience with concurrency.
• 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products,

and 1 year of experience with large scale application design and

architecture.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field.
• 5 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.

• 1 year of experience in a technical leadership role.
• Experience developing accessible technologies.
• Experience with iOS development .

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.

Glasses provide a unique first-person perspective, with a goal serving as one of

the strongest cues about the user’s focus. We are the XR Vision team, with the

objective to develop and enhance Glasses experiences that leverage this camera

imagery perspective. Specifically, our team's impact is through establishing and

delivering applications that primarily use the camera sensor as a key input,

investigating and pioneering novel experiences that integrate camera images, and

furnishing solutions and tools aimed at elevating camera and image quality for

other Glasses experiences.

For decades, the computing revolution has reshaped our world driven by

breakthroughs in compute, connectivity, mobile, and now, AI. Google's XR team is

at the forefront of the next major leap – the convergence of AI and XR. This is

more than just new devices – it's about reimagining how we interact with the

world around us. We're building a future where

lightweight XR devices like smart glasses and headsets pair with helpful AI to

augment human intelligence, offering personalized, conversational, and

contextually aware experiences.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills,

experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $174000 - $252000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google

[https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/benefits/].

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Guide the development and optimization of next-generation Android Glasses

applications.

• Develop robust concurrency models and high-performance, privacy-compliant

pipelines for image processing.

• Establish robust testing, monitoring, and infrastructure frameworks to

guarantee exceptional product quality.

• Drive alignment across cross-product (xPA) and cross-functional (xFN) teams

to deliver critical user journeys for milestone dogfoods and launches.

• Build foundational camera features alongside the Glasses Platform team,

resolving low-level system challenges to optimize hardware-software cohesion.