XR Systems Performance Engineer: Optimize Next-Gen Glasses

Google Inc.; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Google Inc. is seeking a Senior XR System Performance Engineer to drive performance excellence for XR hardware and software, identifying bottlenecks and implementing optimizations under tight latency, power, and thermal constraints.

You will optimize the microXR glasses OS and Glasses Core software stack across boot loaders, kernels, IPC, graphics, and sensors, contributing to the XR product family. This role emphasizes end-to-end system performance and collaboration across teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software development programming in C++ or Java.
• 5 years of experience testing, and launching software products.
• 5 years of experience with performance, large-scale systems data analysis, visualization tools, or debugging.
• 3 years of experience with software design and architecture.

Responsibilities

• Architect, guide, and vet systems designs within the scope of the AR Glasses OS team (with a focus on end-to-end performance optimizations), and write product or system development code to solve ambiguous problems.
• Analyze in-depth performance of workloads ranging from high-level application APIs to low-level microXR architecture details.
• Communicate, design, and implement decisions effectively through architecture/design documents and code.
• Mentor and train other team members on architecture and design techniques, coding standards, debugging complex system interactions, and engineering best practices and processes.
• Review code developed by other developers, provide feedback to ensure best practices, and contribute to the overall efficiency and productivity of the engineering team through code, process enhancements, and software development workflow improvements.

Skills

C++

Java

Performance analysis

System testing

Software design

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Perfetto

GDB

ftrace

Job description

Google Inc. is seeking a Senior XR System Performance Engineer to drive performance excellence for XR hardware and software, identifying bottlenecks and implementing optimizations under tight latency, power, and thermal constraints.

You will optimize the microXR glasses OS and Glasses Core software stack across boot loaders, kernels, IPC, graphics, and sensors, contributing to the XR product family. This role emphasizes end-to-end system performance and collaboration across teams.