Staff Imaging System Architect, Project Starline

Key Skills

Java Programming, Management, Python Programming, C++, C Programming, SQL, MATLAB Programming, Algorithms, OpenCV, Data pipelines, MS Dynamics

Job Description

Minimum qualifications:

• Master's degree in electrical engineering, physics, computer science, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience with image signal processing pipeline implementations and design considerations.
• Experience with C or C++.

Preferred qualifications:

• PhD in electrical engineering, physics, computer science, or a related field.
• Experience with people and project management.
• Understanding of camera and imaging optics, color spaces such as sRGB, gamma correction, image encoding, Fourier transforms, HDR video techniques, and common video encoding and decoding methods.
• Familiarity with computation photography method, ML-based image-to-image processing techniques, geometric camera calibration, OpenCV, or MATLAB.
• Basic understanding of image sensors, including pixel physics, micro lens arrays, phase pixels, dynamic range and noise, operating modes, electrical interfaces, and economics.
• Ability to get to the root of issues with a direct work approach.

About the job

In this role, you will apply state-of-the-art consumer imaging to 3D imaging and rendering to enable new product categories including photorealistic telepresence. You will interact directly with global experts in hardware, software, machine learning, and computer vision, and act as the top owner for core imaging systems.

Project Starline from Google combines advances in hardware and software to enable friends, families and co-workers to feel together, even when they’re cities (or countries) apart. Imagine looking through a magic window, and through that window, you see another person, life-size and in three-dimensions. As part of the Project Starline team, you'll work with researchers and engineers in a fast-paced product-oriented environment. Our teams collaborate closely with Google Workspace and Research teams. Your contributions will have an impact on the future of communications with Google products. You will apply technology to solve that really important problem that we often want to be together and we can’t.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate the design and development of imaging pipelines for state-of-the-art realistic 3D telepresence systems.
• Drive specifications and lead collaborations with product management, design, computer vision, research, and hardware engineering to make architecture, algorithm, and hardware decisions leading to an optimal user experience.
• Coordinate development and performance assessment of white balance and exposure algorithms in a multiple camera environment, and work with ISP and Software Engineers to implement and validate new algorithms.
• Assess what is possible, and identify and close gaps in performance and understanding.