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Software Engineer, Pixel Biometrics

Google, Seattle, Washington, us, 98127

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Mountain View, CA, USA ;

Seattle, WA, USA .

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.

8 years of experience in software development.

5 years of experience testing and launching software products.

3 years of experience with software design and architecture.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with developing or writing software that interacts with embedded systems, including experience with machine learning and porting reference models to hardware accelerators (e.g. TPUs).

Experience in dependency injection and code scalability and in writing testable and scalable C++ code.

Experience in high‑performance systems programming in resource‑constrained environments and with operating systems and the Linux kernel.

Demonstrated a security mindset in software development, writing code with an understanding of how attackers may abuse it.

Passion to work on complex, primarily IC‑related projects and write code to work with.

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. 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.

The Pixel Biometrics team provides seamless biometric authentication for the Pixel lineup of devices. We have delivered NIR (Near‑infrared) face authentication and developed the most secure RGB face authentication using commodity hardware. We work on the ML, data science and engineering to provide users with secure, privacy‑preserving and useful AI features.

Responsibilities

Develop software that bridges the gap between the hardware running secure face authentication and the Android operating system.

Write concurrent code to stream and process camera frames.

Investigate and improve the latency, memory usage and battery impact of our product on resource‑constrained hardware.

Design and implement scalable software to enable the next‑generation biometric authentication.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.

Seniority level Not Applicable

Employment type Full‑time

Job function

Information Technology and Engineering

Industries

Information Services and Technology

Information and Internet

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