Google Looking for Senior Software Engineer, Android Compatibility, Immersive XR OS at Mountain View, CA Full Time

Note: Google’s hybrid workplace includes remote and in-office roles. By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following:

In-office locations: Mountain View, CA, USA; Kirkland, WA, USA; Seattle, WA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA.
Remote location(s): United States.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience
• 2 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, C, C++, Java, JavaScript)
• 2 years of experience with data structures or algorithms in either an academic or industry setting
• 1 year of experience with Linux Kernel or AOSP based systems

Preferred qualifications:

• Master’s degree or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field

• 2 years of experience working with embedded operating systems, and designing/implementing OS and application runtime components

• Experience with core android components including SurfaceFlinger and InputFlinger

• Experience with OpenXR and OpenXR Extensions
• Experience developing accessible technologies

About the job

The Google Augmented Reality (AR) team is made up of a group of engineers, designers, and research scientists tasked with building the foundations for great immersive computing, and prototyping helpful, delightful user experiences.

You will bring interest and expertise in designing, building, and optimizing operating systems software for innovative immersive XR devices. Your interests will span the entire operating systems stack: boot loaders, kernels, IPC mechanisms, device drivers, graphics, window composition, cameras and sensors, application frameworks, etc.

You will triage bugs that are escalated from an OEM and become a technical expert on how Android compliance solutions (e.g., CTS, GTS) are adopted and run by our partners, and how approval processes work. Our Devices and Services team combines the best of Google AI, Software, and Hardware to create radically helpful experiences for users. We research, design, and develop 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 and Services team is making people’s lives better through technology.

The Google Augmented Reality team is a diverse group of experts tasked with building the foundations for great immersive computing and building helpful, delightful user experiences. We’re focused on making immersive computing accessible to billions of people through mobile devices, and our scope continues to grow and evolve.

Additional Information
(Colorado only*) Minimum full-time salary range between $168,000 – $181,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. *Note: Disclosure as required by sb19-085 (8-5-20) of the minimum salary compensation for this role when being hired into our offices in Colorado.

Responsibilities

• Develop, configure, integrate, and build Android test suites.
• Build and maintain strong relationship with Android platform, Engineering Productivity, Google Play, and cross-product area tech leads, and provide them with technical leadership and insights in order to mitigate technical risks.
• Take the ownership of updating and releasing device approval/waiver processes to ensure the compliance of Android devices.
• Communicate design and implementation decisions effectively through architecture/design documents and code.
• Review code developed by other developers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).

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