Senior Software Engineer, Pixel Camera Performance
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Sep 30, 2026. First seen by Alion on Sep 29, 2026. Google scores B on the Alion truth index.
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.
The Pixel Camera teams design and deliver cameras and provide exceptional user experience. We work to showcase the image processing, computational photography, machine learning technologies, and deliver the imaging software solutions for users. We also try to transform how people interact with newer and smarter Android devices.
In this role, you will collaborate with Camera pipeline and algorithm teams across Pixel Camera app and underlying subsystems to ensure the utmost performance and reliability of the entire Camera experience in both lab and field environments. You will use data to guide development teams in prioritizing the opportunities for improvement. You will identify problematic anti-patterns and share best practices widely to maximize impact. You will contribute significantly towards a truly polished Pixel Camera product worthy of industry and user accolades.
Google is an engineering company at heart. We hire people with a broad set of technical skills who are ready to take on some of technology's greatest challenges and make an impact on users around the world. At Google, engineers not only revolutionize search, they routinely work on scalability and storage solutions, large-scale applications and entirely new platforms for developers around the world. From Google Ads to Chrome, Android to YouTube, social to local, Google engineers are changing the world one technological achievement after another.Responsibilities
- Lead (often cross-team) initiatives to define, measure, optimize, and monitor key performance indicators in Pixel Camera's Android application code.
- Collaborate with Camera feature and on-device ML teams to ensure features are optimized for speed, memory, and thermals.
- Develop and utilize telemetry data infrastructure to offer leadership insights crucial for verifiable high performance, reliability, and system health.
- Provide in-depth insights from advanced profiling tools to prioritize and validate improvements.
Qualifications
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages, and with data structures/algorithms.
- 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 1 year of experience with software design and architecture.
- 3 years of experience with performance, systems data analysis, visualization tools, or debugging.
Preferred qualifications:
- Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field.
- 3 years of experience shipping complex embedded software products.
- 1 year of experience in a technical leadership role.
- Experience developing Linux systems, Android systems, or embedded systems.
- Experience with TPU, GPU, and on-device ML models.
- Experience with SQL and data pipelines.