Senior Software Engineer, XR World Context

Google; Zürich; On-site; CHF 119,000 - 122,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

15% Bonus Target

Equity

Benefits

Job summary

Google is seeking a senior software engineer for its XR team to develop next-generation 3D perception and AI-enabled spatial understanding for lightweight XR devices. You will design real-time scene representations and contribute to research in 3D reconstruction and semantic understanding.

The role involves integrating foundation models, creating ego-centric datasets, and ensuring on-device, context-aware AI capabilities for Spatial Gemini.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Vision, Robotics, 3D sensing, or related field.
• 5 years of experience in Computer Vision, Robotics, or related fields.
• Experience contributing to research in 3D surface reconstruction and semantic scene understanding.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and deploy lightweight scene representations for XR glasses.
• Create ego-centric datasets and fuse/evaluate foundation models for real-time representations.
• Interface representations with Gemini/Gemma variants to enable context-aware AI capabilities on-device.

Skills

Computer Vision

Robotics

3D Reconstruction

Semantic Scene Understanding

AR/VR/XR

ML Frameworks

Mobile ML acceleration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Vision or related field

Tools

Gemini/Gemma integration

Foundation models

Job description

In most instances, this position requires in-person interviews as part of the hiring process.

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Zürich, Switzerland; Munich, Germany.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Vision, Robotics, 3D sensing, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in Computer Vision, Robotics, or related fields.
• Experience contributing to research in the field of 3D surface reconstruction and semantic scene understanding.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience working in AR/VR/XR.
• Experience working with mobile DSPs for ML network acceleration.
• Strong skills in modern ML frameworks, VLMs, 3D math, real-time system implications of ML workloads.

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.

For decades, the computing revolution has reshaped our world driven by

breakthroughs in compute, connectivity, mobile, and now, AI. Google's XR team is at the forefront of the next major leap – the convergence of AI and XR. This is more than just new devices – it's about reimagining how we interact with the world around us. We're building a future where

lightweight XR devices like smart glasses and headsets pair with helpful AI to augment human intelligence, offering personalized, conversational, and contextually aware experiences.Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

Germany: €128000 - €131000 (EUR) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Responsibilities

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• Design, implement, and deploy lightweight scene representations to capture world-facing context signals and enable contextual triggers and panel placement for XR glasses.
• Create suitable ego-centric datasets, as well as the fusion and evaluation of different foundation models for building robust object- and scene-centric representations in real-time.
• Interface these representations with Gemini/Gemma variants. This unlocks powerful context-aware AI capabilities, such as voice-based spatial placement and on-device scene understanding for Spatial Gemini. Create and curate suitable ego-centric datasets, as well as the fusion and evaluation of different foundation models for building robust object- and scene-centric representations in real-time.

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