Senior Software Engineer, Optical System Design
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 5 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 1 year of experience with software design and architecture.
- 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages, and with data structures/algorithms.
- Experience with Optics Engineering and/or Display Optics.
Preferred qualifications:
- Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field.
- 6 years relevant work experience in software development, including experience in Python.
- Proficiency with Finite-difference time-domain (FDTD), Rigorous Coupled Wave Analysis (RCWA), Ray-tracing, or Zemax OpticStudio.
- Experience with waveguide based near-eye displays.
- Experience with display systems.
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 work alongside a team of highly skilled and experienced optical engineers to help evaluate and develop novel designs and architectures related to these displays, and work with both internal and external partners to validate and deliver these prototypes and products.
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.
The US base salary range for this full-time position is $161,000-$239,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.
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Responsibilities
- Work with internal and external cross-functional partners to explore existing and novel optical architectures, for near-eye display and related applications.
- Define system/sub-system/component level specifications for new eye displays and related systems.
- Evaluate, design and improve waveguide based near-eye display systems.
- Align current efforts with cross-functional teams across system, physical design, software, imaging, and optics.
- Support internal optics modeling and simulation efforts.
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