Camera Design Engineer, Google Nest

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Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in an engineering field or equivalent practical experience.
• 3 years of experience in camera engineering.
  
  

Preferred qualifications:

• Master’s degree in an engineering field or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience in optics design and stray light analysis and CMOS image sensor, including interfacing and tuning.
• Experience in image quality evaluation including test charts, algorithms, and lighting.
• Experience in prototype bringup and debugging, functional verification, and manufacturing support.
• Experience in mechanical design and tolerance analysis of highly constrained, high-volume designs.
• Experience with digital imaging pipeline, image quality, and algorithms (AE, AWB, etc.).
  
  

About The Job

Google engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. As a member of an extraordinarily creative, motivated and talented team, you develop new products that are used by millions of people. We need our engineers to be versatile and passionate to take on new problems as we continue to push technology forward. If you get excited about building new things and working across discipline lines, then our team might be your next career step.

The Nest Camera team architects, designs, develops, and validates camera subsystems for delivery to the market in Google Nest products. As a Camera Design Engineer, you’ll be responsible for the design and specification of cameras.

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 sensor selection, lens specifications, module architecture, and camera system level design.
• Work with cross-functional teams (software, product design, industrial design, program management, operations, finance, etc.) to deliver a successful product to market.
• Validate designs, component and system level validation, ensuring highest level image quality standards.
• Bring designs to mass production by setting factory test requirements, assisting in software bringup, and traveling on-site to the manufacturer to ensure the design is built and tested successfully.
• Collaborate on the future architecture and specifications of Nest’s products.
  
  

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