Senior Software Engineer, Location and Context, Android

3 Months ago • 5 Years + • Mobile Development

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll collaborate with local and remote Google teams to enhance location experiences on Android and Pixel devices. Responsibilities include developing new algorithms, updating existing software, improving client-side apps and server-side tools, analyzing location data, and integrating LLM/AI systems. You'll work on improving accuracy, reliability, timeliness, and power efficiency of location services, contributing to the overall end-user experience.
Must have:
  • 5+ years software development experience
  • Proficiency in Java, Kotlin, or other languages
  • Data structures and algorithms expertise
  • Develop and maintain Android location software
  • Integrate AI/ML systems
Good to have:
  • Master's or PhD in CS
  • Technical leadership experience
  • Sensor fusion, signal processing knowledge
  • Experience with IMUs or low-power computing
  • Knowledge of location and activity recognition

Job Details


Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, C, C++, Java, Kotlin, JavaScript), and with data structures/algorithms.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field.
  • 1 year of experience in a technical leadership role.
  • Experience in Sensor Fusion, Signal Processing, Inertial Measurement Units, or Low Power Computing.
  • Knowledge of location and activity recognition technologies.

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.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll work within a local team and with remote teams across Google, to enable more accurate, reliable, timely, and power efficient location experiences across the Android platform and Pixel devices. You’ll use Google’s extensive development tools, to build and extend the end user experience of using Location on Android, all the way from external user interfaces, to improvements in internal custom tooling and visualization.

Android is Google’s open-source mobile operating system powering more than 3 billion devices worldwide. Android is about bringing computing to everyone in the world. We believe computing is a super power for good, enabling access to information, economic opportunity, productivity, connectivity between friends and family and more. We think everyone in the world should have access to the best computing has to offer. We provide the platform for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and developers to build compelling computing devices (smartphones, tablets, TVs, wearables, etc) that run the best apps/services for everyone in the world.

Responsibilities

  • Develop new algorithms and update existing software with good integration testing and documentation, in alignment with organizational goals, and in support of end user and internal team needs.
  • Maintain and improve client side apps, and server side tools and systems to measure, analyze, visualize, and automate root cause analysis of issues and potential improvements for end user location experience.
  • Improve software systems in alignment with evolving best practices across the Android Location and adjacent organizations.
  • Integrate rapidly evolving LLM/AI systems into relevant systems, from ML algorithm improvements to optimizing development velocity across a broad organization.

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