Job Description

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Mountain View, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 1 year of experience with data structures or algorithms.
• 1 year of experience with software development in one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, C, C++, Java, JavaScript).
  
  

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field.
• 1 year of experience with front-end frameworks, full-stack development, and/or API development.
• Experience developing accessible technologies.
• Experience in imaging/vision/perception, human computer interaction, augmented/virtual reality, video streaming, and real-time sensors.
• Knowledge/experience in one or more of the following (e.g., 3D graphic rendering, Unity, Graphical User Interface, Mobile Development, Web development (i.e. WebGL), Google Mobile Apps, Google Mobile Services).
• Interest in Android development, Machine Learning (ML), service and infrastructure for ML learning, and other languages used in mobile app development (e.g., Kotlin, Dart/Flutter, JavaScript).
  
  

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.

With your technical expertise you will manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables. You will design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance software solutions.

As a Software Engineer ll on the Augment Reality (AR) team, you will work cross-functionally with Engineering, Research, Product Management, User Experience, and Program Management to build user-facing augmented reality applications for phones and next-generation devices. You will investigate, design, prototype, build, and launch applications and develop applied perception technologies that enable users to interact with the world in new ways through phones and web services.

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.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with User Experience and Product Management to define, prototype, and test developed applications with real users to discover what experiences users value the most and how to improve the developed applications to provide more value to users.
• Design, build, and launch user-facing applications to run on phones and web servers.
• Collaborate with the AR Platform team to optimize the applications, and with teams across the company to leverage and integrate the best of Google technology and services in AR experiences.
  
  

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 .