Staff Touch & Biometric Sensor Engineer — XR Hardware

Google LLC; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 188,000 - 274,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Bonus target

Job summary

Google seeks a Staff Touch and Fingerprint Sensor Engineer in San Jose to lead capacitive touch and biometric subsystems across products, bridging electrical engineering, signal processing, and UX.

You will work with UX, Industrial Design, and Human Factors to translate interaction goals into concrete requirements, guiding internal teams and partners to scalable, industry-leading performance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Human-Computer Interaction, Physics, or equivalent practical experience.
• 6 years of experience designing, integrating, and shipping capacitive touch and fingerprint sensor subsystems in consumer electronics.
• 3 years of experience developing sensing/fingerprint sensors.
• Experience leading capacitive sensing and biometric modules through the full product lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end architecture, specification, and execution of capacitive touch interfaces and fingerprint sensors across multiple product lines. Contribute to the multi-year sensing technology roadmap. Architect and oversee human-subject user studies and biometric trials to validate new touch interfaces, sensor placements, and firmware algorithms.
• Act as primary technical bridge between Hardware and UX—co-developing interactive prototypes, defining touch and biometric UX metrics, and driving system trade-offs before architecture lock.
• Lead complex cross-disciplinary debugging across Display, Mechanical, RF, Power, and Firmware teams to resolve noise coupling, mechanical stack-up tolerances, and algorithmic edge cases.
• Drive IC and module suppliers on custom silicon/sensor development, factory calibration flows, compliance testing, and yield optimization through to mass production.
• Establish internal best practices for touch/biometric benchmarking and user-experience validation. Mentor junior engineers on capacitive sensing fundamentals/human-centric hardware design.

Skills

Capacitive touch

Fingerprint sensors

Full product lifecycle

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in EE/ME/HCI/Physics

Master's or PhD preferred

Tools

Automated test equipment (ATE)

Job description

Google seeks a Staff Touch and Fingerprint Sensor Engineer in San Jose to lead capacitive touch and biometric subsystems across products, bridging electrical engineering, signal processing, and UX.

You will work with UX, Industrial Design, and Human Factors to translate interaction goals into concrete requirements, guiding internal teams and partners to scalable, industry-leading performance.