Android System Software Engineer, Project Starline

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages (e.g., C++), and with data structures/algorithms.
  
• 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 1 year of experience with software design and architecture.
  
• 3 years of experience with cameras.
  
• 3 years of experience with Linux Kernel.
  

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field.
  
• 1 year of experience in a technical leadership role.
  
• Experience in development, testing and deployment of Android Board Support Packages (BSP), Linux device drivers or Linux kernel modules.
  
• Experience in performance analysis and optimization in the domain of embedded systems.
  
• Knowledge of one or more of the following: SoC, hardware bring-up, power management, ARM processors, bootloaders, or hardware/software integration.
  

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.

Project Starline is a technology project that combines advances in hardware and software to enable friends, families and co-workers to feel together. In this role, you will be responsible for all camera-related software, including applications, Android/Linux OS, on-device computing using TPU/GPU/DSP, firmware, etc.

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

• Design, implement and deliver critical features that relate to various low-level software stacks, including camera, encoder, TPU and USB.
  
• Propose designs for new components relying on OS features, and give feedback on design documents and code.
  
• Develop and debug across all levels of Android OS software stack.
  
• Contribute to engineering efforts that develop experiments, tools and test infrastructure needed to tune image quality, performance and stability of our smart cameras.
  
• Collaborate with hardware, product/program management, and other internal teams across various Product Areas to develop roadmaps, drive alignment and work towards common goals.