Camera Firmware Engineer

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 1 year of experience in coding in C and C++ for embedded systems.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 1 year of experience in firmware engineering.
• Experience with Python for scripting, tooling, and analysis.
• Experienced with Auto Focus (AF) algorithms and core camera calibration concepts (e.g., actuator calibration).
• Ability to debug complex, system-level issues that span hardware, firmware, and software.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams.
• 1 year of experience in firmware engineering.
• Experience with Python for scripting, tooling, and analysis.
• Experienced with Auto Focus (AF) algorithms and core camera calibration concepts (e.g., actuator calibration).
• Ability to debug complex, system-level issues that span hardware, firmware, and software.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams.

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.

In this role, you will support our camera systems team. This role is essential for guaranteeing our camera delivers fast and reliable image quality performance. You will be responsible for executing tuning and validation plans, running test suites, and performing critical data collection.

You will be responsible for identifying failures, reproducing complex bugs, collecting all necessary logs, and performing the initial triage on image quality issues found during development and early production builds for Extended Reality (XR) camera.

The Platforms and Devices team encompasses Google's various computing software platforms across environments (desktop, mobile, applications), as well as our first party devices and services that combine the best of Google AI, software, and hardware. Teams across this area research, design, and develop new technologies to make our user's interaction with computing faster and more seamless, building innovative experiences for our users around the world.

Responsibilities

• Tune 3A (i.e., auto exposure, auto white balance, auto focus) and camera Imaging Signal Processing (ISP) algorithms to achieve quality goals.
• Develop, implement, and deploy 3A/ISP features aligning with emerging camera technologies.
• Develop imaging quality and tuning methods for novel pipelines.
• Develop and implement test plans, defining objective metrics and subjective quality standards for new technologies, sensors, and actuators.