The Open Codecs team at Google advances the media compression technology for Google and the industry. Our mission is to make the best compression technology universally available, enabling the efficient delivery of video, image, audio, and extended reality (XR) over the internet. In this role, you will be managing forces behind open source projects such as VP9, AV1, AV2, WebP, AVIF, Lyra, and Draco. The technology developed by the team has helped billions of people around the world connect, work, study and live.
Billions of people watch and produce hours of media daily, and compression technology is essential for delivering these rich experiences. The video compression industry is at an inflection point, ready to embrace machine learning-based algorithms for next-generation standards to achieve advanced efficiency gains over the state-of-the-art.
As a video codec developer, you will develop groundbreaking, high-performance video coding algorithms for Google and the broader ecosystem. Your inventions will contribute directly to drive the entire industry forward and improve media experiences for billions of users every day.
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Since our founding in 1998, Google has grown by leaps and bounds. Starting from two computer science students in a university dorm room, we now have thousands of employees and offices around the world. These Googlers build products that help create opportunities for everyone, whether down the street or across the globe.
It starts with how we work together. We’re building a company where people of different views, backgrounds and experiences can do their best work and show up for one another. A place where every Googler feels like they belong.
So whether you develop new technology or creative campaigns, craft beautiful products or breakthrough partnerships, your work here is a chance to accomplish things that matter. Bring your insight, imagination, and healthy disregard for the impossible. Bring everything that makes you unique. Together, we can build for everyone.
Benefits
We strive to provide Googlers and their loved ones with a world-class benefits experience, focused on supporting their physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing. Our benefits are based on data, and centered around our users: Googlers and their families. They’re thoughtfully designed to enhance your health and wellbeing, and generous enough to make it easy for you to take good care of yourself (now, and in the future). So we can build for everyone, together.
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How we Hire
Google’s hiring process is an important part of our culture. Googlers care deeply about their teams and the people who make them up. In order to build for everyone, we know that we need a wide range of perspectives and experiences, and a fair hiring process is the first step in getting there.