Job Description

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: New York, NY, USA; Mountain View, CA, USA; Seattle, WA, USA.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience with software development in C++ or 1 year of experience with an advanced degree.
• 2 years of experience with data structures or algorithms.
• 1 year of professional experience within the field of 3D computer graphics.
  
  

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical fields.
• 2 years of experience in multiplayer game development, virtual reality, high-performance programming, and/or game debugging.
• Experience developing accessible technologies.
• Experience with experience design in any medium (e.g., music and/or digital or graphical media).
• Knowledge of one or more game engine.
• Knowledge of trigonometry, 3D transforms, linear algebra, geometry processing, performance profiling, and optimization on mobile devices.
  
  

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 with a focus on Virtual Reality (VR) development, you will contribute to building immersive experiences that will change users’ lives. You will work on applications and frameworks that bring Google’s technology to life in next-generation computing platforms and interfaces.

In this role, you will ideate, prototype, evaluate, and productize novel VR experiences and hardware in a collaborative work environment. You will work in a highly dynamic environment and develop high-quality software artifacts. You will develop robust implementations that span from low fidelity prototypes to productionized applications.

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

• Optimize the dataset and runtime behind VR projects for them to be viable on a wide set of VR headsets.
• Prototype features of VR to make experiences feel more real, useful, comprehensive, social, and personal.
• Design, develop, polish, and launch VR projects and features.
  
  

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 .