Senior Software Engineer, Android, XR Camera Experiences

Google; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 174,000 - 252,000; Full time

Job summary

Google seeks software engineers for XR Glasses, focusing on camera-driven Android applications and high-performance image processing. You will work on concurrency models, testing, and end-to-end launches with cross-functional teams.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years in Kotlin/C++, Android, image processing, and system design; leadership and accessibility experience are a plus for this role in Google XR Vision.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience required.
• 5 years of software development in Kotlin or C++.
• 3 years Android app development and camera experience.
• 3 years image processing and concurrency experience.
• 3 years testing/maintaining/launching software products; 1 year large-scale design/architecture.
• Masters/PhD and leadership experience are preferred.

Responsibilities

• Guide development and optimization of Android Glasses apps.
• Develop robust concurrency models and high-performance image pipelines.
• Establish testing, monitoring, and infrastructure frameworks for quality.
• Align cross-product and cross-functional teams to deliver journeys and launches.
• Build camera features with Glasses Platform team, optimizing hardware-software cohesion.

Skills

Kotlin

C++

Android

Android Camera

Image processing

Concurrency

Software testing

Large-scale design

Technical leadership

Accessibility tech

iOS development

Data structures & algorithms

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related field

Job description

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience with software development in Kotlin or C++.
• 3 years of experience with Android application development and Android camera.
• 3 years of experience with image processing.
• 3 years of experience with concurrency.
• 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 1 year of experience with large scale application design and architecture.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field.
• 5 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
• 1 year of experience in a technical leadership role.
• Experience developing accessible technologies.
• Experience with iOS development .

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.

Glasses provide a unique first-person perspective, with a goal serving as one of the strongest cues about the user’s focus. We are the XR Vision team, with the objective to develop and enhance Glasses experiences that leverage this camera imagery perspective. Specifically, our team's impact is through establishing and delivering applications that primarily use the camera sensor as a key input, investigating and pioneering novel experiences that integrate camera images, and furnishing solutions and tools aimed at elevating camera and image quality for other Glasses experiences.

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.

US: $174000 - $252000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities:

• Guide the development and optimization of next-generation Android Glasses applications.
• Develop robust concurrency models and high-performance, privacy-compliant pipelines for image processing.
• Establish robust testing, monitoring, and infrastructure frameworks to guarantee exceptional product quality.
• Drive alignment across cross-product (xPA) and cross-functional (xFN) teams to deliver critical user journeys for milestone dogfoods and launches.
• Build foundational camera features alongside the Glasses Platform team, resolving low-level system challenges to optimize hardware-software cohesion.