You will work alongside researchers and engineers on innovating communication for Google products.

Your team designs and builds the hardware, software, and networking technologies that power Google's services. As a Hardware Engineer, you design and build systems, develop from the lowest levels of circuit design to large system design, and see those systems all the way through to high volume manufacturing.

With your technical expertise, you lead projects in multiple areas of expertise (i.e., engineering domains or systems) within a data center facility, including construction and equipment installation, troubleshooting, and debugging with vendors.

Project Starline

Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. Our Devices & Services team combines the best of Google AI, Software, and Hardware to create radically helpful experiences for users. We research, design, and develop new 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 & Services team is making people's lives better through technology.

Responsibilities

• Characterize operating range and limitations of color processing pipeline and calibration processes, from camera to display.
• Diagnose artifacts (clipping, banding, noise, blocking, color fringing) and propose mitigations.
• Set requirements and evaluate solutions for color pipeline engineering and color calibration, color spaces, quantization, encoding, decoding stages, aligning to both Google ecosystem and broader digital video standards.
• Develop calibration procedures minimizing onsite labor while maintaining reconstruction quality.
• Set requirements and evaluate performance of hardware (sensor, ISP, display) and software both theoretically and experimentally, in coordination with visual scientists, user researchers, and hardware and software engineers.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 3 years of software development experience, or 1 year with a relevant advanced degree.
• Experience tuning color processing pipelines for sensors and/or displays.
• Software development experience in Python, C, or C++.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with HDR encoding and decoding formats and standards.
• Interest and ability to learn other coding languages as needed.
• Ability to execute quickly in ever-changing environments.
• Ability to speak and write in English fluently.