Senior Software Engineer, Android XR

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience with software development in C++.
• 5 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products, or 5 years of experience with software design and architecture.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience leading the design and implementation of 3D user experiences.
• Experience in leading performance profiling and optimization efforts on constrained mobile or embedded systems, with knowledge in C++.
• Knowledge of 3D math, including trigonometry, 3D transforms, and linear algebra.
• Ability to architect, implement, and debug 3D systems within a major game engine or an equivalent internal framework.

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.

Responsibilities:

• Design, prototype and develop the foundational 3D interactions and user interface components for Android Extended Reality (XR), from initial concept to final, shipping.
• Develop and implement scalable systems to choreograph animations, motion, and audiovisual behaviors across the entire Android XR system, ensuring an excellent user experience.
• Collaborate with UX designers, product managers, and other engineering teams to define and refine the boundary between Android (Kotlin/Java) and the high-performance C++ graphics engine.
• Improve rendering and interaction run times to deliver responsive UI on mobile XR hardware.
• Advocate and build new tools, workflows, and standard procedures that accelerate the team's iteration cycle, enabling experimentation.