Research Engineer, Vision Language Models

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 team develops novel core technologies around computer vision and machine learning, in particular customized visual language models, scene and object understanding, 3D computer vision, high-level text understanding, 3D reconstruction and simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), object detection and tracking. The activity spans the whole range from research to product. The team is composed of Research Scientists and Software Engineers with a focus on 3D scene reconstruction, object and text understanding and Generative AI. The team serves multiple perception-related products at Google, with a particular focus on AR products and applications.