Senior Software Engineer, Embedded, Pixel Camera
Mountain View, CA, USA$174k - $252kFull-timePosted 1w ago
About the role
Google Pixel Camera embedded software role focused on designing and deploying exposure control software and ML algorithms for Pixel camera stack, with cross-functional collaboration and optimization for performance, power, and memory.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design, development, and implementation of core exposure control software and algorithms for the Pixel camera Auto Exposure.
- Machine Learning (ML) Deployment: Develop, iterate, and deploy cutting-edge ML algorithms directly onto devices, focusing on constrained environments. Implement and experiment with different state of art ML algorithms and model architectures, including but not limited to LLM, deep learning, distillation, etc.
- Drive cross-functional collaboration with internal Google teams, integrating environmental sensor data to enhance and assist camera performance across multiple projects
- Optimize the performance, power consumption, and memory footprint of the Pixel camera AE software stack to deliver a seamless user experience.
- Contribute to the camera tuning process and final image quality evaluation of Google Pixel products.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 5 years of experience in low level systems programming languages (e.g. C++ or C).
- 5 of years of experience in embedded systems or firmware design, with experience in camera 3A tuning and CMOS image sensor technologies.
- 3 years of experience working with embedded operating systems.
- 3 years of experience Machine Learning model development, optimization, and deployment.
Skills
Required:Low level systems programming (C/C++)Embedded systems / firmware designCamera 3A tuning and CMOS sensorsMachine Learning model development, optimization, deployment
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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