Software Engineer, Pixel Biometrics

Company: Google
Location: Mountain View
Posted on: April 1, 2026

Job Description:

info_outline X In accordance with Washington state law, we are highlighting our comprehensive benefits package, which is available to all eligible US based employees. Benefits for this role include: Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment Sick Time: 40 hours/year (statutory, where applicable); 5 days/event (discretionary) Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks Holidays: 13 paid days per year Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Mountain View, CA, USA; San Diego, CA, USA; Seattle, WA, USA . Minimum qualifications: Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience. 8 years of experience in software development. 5 years of experience testing, and launching software products. 3 years of experience with software design and architecture. Preferred qualifications: Experience with developing or writing software that interacts with embedded systems, including experience with machine learning and porting reference models to hardware accelerators (e.g., TPUs). Experience in dependency injection and code scalability and in writing testable and scalable C++ code. Experience in high-performance systems programming in resource constrained environments and with operating systems and the Linux kernel. Familiarity with a security mindset to software development, writing code with an understanding of how attackers may abuse it. Passion to work on complex, primarily IC related projects and write code to work with. 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, artificial intelligence, 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. The Pixel Biometrics team provides seamless biometric authentication for the Pixel lineup of devices. We have delivered NIR (Near-infrared) face authentication and developed the most secure RGB face authentication using commodity hardware. We work on the ML, data science and engineering to provide users with secure, privacy-preserving and useful AI features. The Platforms and Devices team encompasses Google's various computing software platforms across environments (desktop, mobile, applications), as well as our first party devices and services that combine the best of Google AI, software, and hardware. Teams across this area research, design, and develop new technologies to make our user's interaction with computing faster and more seamless, building innovative experiences for our users around the world. The US base salary range for this full-time position is $207,000-$300,000 bonus equity benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process. Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google . Responsibilities Develop software that bridges the gap between the hardware running secure face authentication and the Android operating system. Write a concurrent code to stream and process camera frames. Investigate and improve the latency, memory usage and battery impact of our product on resource-constrained hardware. Design and implement scaleable software to enable the next generation of biometric authentication.

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