Senior Development Manager, Augmented Reality OS, Media

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.

• 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, C, C++, Java, JavaScript).

• 5 years of experience in a technical leadership role; overseeing projects, with 5 years of experience in a people management, supervision/team leadership role.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field.
• 7 years of experience designing and implementing OS and application runtime components.
• 5 years of experience with embedded operating systems.
• 5 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization.
• Experience with bare-metal or RTOS-based microcontroller development in C or C++.
• Experience with one or more of the following: microcontrollers, SoC, ISP, DSP, GPU, device drivers, hardware bring-up, power management, ARM processors, firmware, hardware/software integration, developing and debugging machine language, or wireless connectivity.

About the job

The Augmented Reality (AR) team is a group of developers, designers, and research scientists tasked with building the foundations for great immersive computing, and prototyping helpful, delightful user experiences. Our team combines the best of Google AI, Software, and Hardware to create radically helpful experiences for users.

We research, design, and develop technologies and hardware to make our user's interaction with computing faster, seamless, and more powerful. Whether finding new ways to capture and sense the world around us, advancing form factors, or improving interaction methods, the AR team is making people's lives better through technology.

In this role, you will be responsible for leading our media efforts including audio, video, and camera domains.

Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. Our Devices & Services team combines the best of Google AI, Software, and Hardware to create radically helpful experiences for users. We research, design, and develop new technologies and hardware to make our user's interaction with computing faster, seamless, and more powerful. Whether finding new ways to capture and sense the world around us, advancing form factors, or improving interaction methods, the Devices & Services team is making people's lives better through technology.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development efforts for our media team, including audio, video, and camera software and hardware components. Guide efforts to utilize accelerators such as DSPs, GPUs, hardware, and software codecs.
• Review code developed by other engineers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).
• Contribute to existing documentation or educational content and adapt content based on product/program updates and user feedback. Mentor and train other team members on design techniques, and coding standards.
• Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve by analyzing the sources of issues and the impact on hardware, network, or service operations and quality. 
• Design, guide, and vet systems designs within the scope of the broader area, and write product or system development code to solve ambiguous problems.

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