Software Engineer, Haptics Framework and Android Experience, Pixel

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.

• 2 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages (e.g., Java or Kotlin), or 1 year of experience with an advanced degree.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical fields.

• 2 years of experience with Android development and familiarity with Android development process.

• Strong interest in developing user-facing features.

• Strong communication skills.

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, 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.

Haptics is a useful element to help deliver a more premium use experience to the mobile users. We connect all the dots around Haptics: enable OEMs to build and expose their Haptics capabilities with their unique strength, empower app developers and haptics designers with intuitive and easy to use APIs and tools, and bring Haptics capabilities to different 0p and 1p applications to greatly enhance the user experiences for those applications.

In this role, you're expected to get familiar with the Haptics ecosystem, understand the differences between Haptics and other media types (e.g. audio, video, etc.) and how to measure Haptics quality, quickly come up with solutions to expose and bring the value of Haptics to Android users.

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 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:

• Design, implement, test and ship Haptics features.

• Collaborate with partners, including 0p/1p app owners and research team to build robust features.

• Work with cross-functional parties, including Product Managers, Program Managers, UX and haptics designers to deliver the right features on time.

• Debug and fix problems within the Haptics stack.