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Staff Software Engineer, XR Ecosystem, AR/VR Graphics and Compositor

Google· Advanced
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San José, CA, USA, San Diego, CA, USA$207k - $300kFull-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

Software engineer role focused on XR/AR/VR graphics, compositor and ecosystem within Google's XR team, delivering wearable device software across design, bring-up, production, and optimization for power, performance and reliability.

Responsibilities

  • Deliver software and technical support related to wearable consumer Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality (AR/VR) device development, commercialization and production, from design, development, bring-up, factory assembly and manufacturing, test and qualification.
  • Optimize software and firmware for power, performance, memory and reliability.
  • Write robust, reliable, efficient, and testable software designed to run in environments that span from RTOS (FreeRTOS, Zephyr), embedded frameworks (pigweed) to Linux kernel, drivers and Android hardware abstraction layer, services and frameworks.
  • Optimize software and firmware for power, performance, memory and reliability.
  • Bring-up, debugging, troubleshooting and commercializing wearable devices with Microcontrollers (MCU), IMU, camera sensors.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 8 years of experience in software development.
  • 6 years of experience in systems integration.
  • Experience with embedded software/firmware development and experience in C/C++.
  • Experience in Real Time Operating Systems (RTOS).

Skills

Required:Software developmentC/C++RTOS

Benefits

  • Learn more about benefits at Google (provided in job description)
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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