Software Engineer, Camera System, Google Pixel - New Taipei City

Minimum qualifications:

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

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field.
• 1 year of experience with Android development, digital imaging or embedded Systems
• Experience developing accessible technologies.

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.

We are building the camera system software layers running below android camera public APIs for Pixel phones, which offer full camera functionality for Google Camera App (GCA) and all 3rd party camera apps. Camera system software builds up feature sets and infrastructures that lay out the foundation of delivering industry leading mobile camera experience.

Our Scopes: Camera System Software that powers Pixel, Camera features Google ISP Software (ISP user space and kernel drivers), Google Camera HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer), Advanced Multi-Camera Software Frameworks, Camera sensor software components that support both camera and non-camera use cases. Pixel Camera Platform Health: Stability, Power, Performance, Memory

Responsibilities

• Develop Pixel camera system software, including the camera software stack supporting the Android camera Hardware Abstraction Layer, camera hardware drivers, and conduct testing and validation on emulations and silicon.
• Possess proficiency in Image/video quality tuning and evaluation.
• Apply optimization techniques to Pixel camera system software performance, power, and memory
  
• Apply machine learning and computer vision algorithm development and integration techniques.
• Develop and implement ambient and always-on computing solutions.