Camera Hardware Design Engineer, Google Nest

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Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in an engineering field or equivalent practical experience.
• 1 year of work experience in an engineering field.
  
  

Preferred qualifications:

• Master’s degree in an engineering field.
• Experience in optics design and/or semiconductor image sensors.
• 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 (Auto Exposure, Auto White Balance, etc.).
  
  

About The Job

Our computational challenges are so big, complex and unique we can’t just purchase off-the-shelf hardware, we’ve got to make it ourselves. Your team designs and builds the hardware, software and networking technologies that power all of Google’s services. As a Hardware Engineer, you design and build the systems that are the heart of the world’s largest and most powerful computing infrastructure. You develop from the lowest levels of circuit design to large system design and see those systems all the way through to high volume manufacturing. Your work has the potential to shape the machinery that goes into our cutting-edge data centers affecting millions of Google users.

As a key member of the team, you manage projects in multiple areas with your expertise. You also monitor the performance of vendors working on projects and evaluate new technologies. The Nest Camera team architects, designs, develops, and validates camera subsystems for delivery to the market in 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

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

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