Software Engineering Manager, ChromeOS

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience with software development, including data structures/algorithms.
• 1 year of experience in technical leadership, people management, supervision, or team leadership.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience building camera stack on Operating System (OS) or framework level.
• Experience in development of Android OS.
• Experience in Android app development.
• Knowledge of camera technologies (e.g., 3A).

About the job

Like Google's own ambitions, the work of a Software Engineer goes way beyond just Search. Software Engineering Managers have not only the technical expertise to take on and provide technical leadership to major projects, but also manage a team of engineers. You not only optimize your own code but make sure engineers are able to optimize theirs. As a Software Engineering Manager you manage your project goals, contribute to product strategy and help develop your team. Teams work all across the company, in areas such as information retrieval, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking, security, data compression, user interface design; the list goes on and is growing every day. Operating with scale and speed, our exceptional software engineers are just getting started -- and as a manager, you guide the way.

With technical and leadership expertise, you manage engineers across multiple teams and locations, a large product budget and oversee the deployment of large-scale projects across multiple sites internationally. Chrome OS delivers quality computing at scale to provide universal and unfettered access to information, entertainment, and tools. Our mission is to empower anyone to create and access information freely through fast, secure, simple, and intelligent computing.

Responsibilities

• Optimize the built-in camera app to provide a smooth user experience on Android Desktop.
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners (e.g., Product Manager, User Experience (UX) Designer, Technical Program Manager, etc.) to do team planning and decision making.
• Drive the feature scoping and design for better camera applications experience.
• Grow and guide the team to deliver best camera applications on ChromeOS/Android Desktop.