Job Description
Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Raleigh, NC, USA; Durham, NC, USA.Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 5 years of experience in software development using C++.
- Experience with graphics programming, including work with rendering libraries or graphics APIs (e.g., Skia, Vulkan, or OpenGL).
Preferred qualifications:
- Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field.
- 1 year of experience in a technical leadership role.
- Experience with low-level graphics programming and vector graphics.
- Experience working with graphics APIs, such as SVG, Canvas2D, OpenGL, WebGL, WebGPU, Vulkan, Metal, or DirectX and utilizing text libraries such as Freetype, Harfbuzz, CoreText, or DirectWrite for rendering and shaping.
- Experience in platform development across Android, Chrome (Mac and Linux), Web, or iOS .
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 part of the Skia Graphics team within Chrome Graphics, you will contribute to delivering compelling 2/2.5D graphics features for all of Google’s platforms, a team whose mission is simply, “Pixels on all platforms.” Skia itself is a complete 2D open source library for drawing Text, Geometries, and Images.You will partner closely with native designers and web developers, work on the underlying rendering to make graphic designs and effects come to life in Chrome, Android, Wear, Flutter, and many other products across Google. You will also deliver graphics for external partners across the industry.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.Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. US: $174000 - $253000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + bonus + equity + benefitsLearn more about benefits at Google.Responsibilities
- Enhance the capabilities and performance of text rendering in Skia across Chrome, Android, and other Google platforms.
- Implement support for emerging fonts and evolve text support alongside operating system updates.
- Develop shaping and alignment APIs to support the latest designs.
- Collaborate with cross-functional design and engineering teams to build high-quality cross-platform graphics solutions.
- Triage and resolve system issues, and use AI to accelerate engineering productivity.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Raleigh, NC |
| Industry | Computer Software |
| Company Size | 10,000 employees or more |
| Year Founded | 1998 |
| Website | https://goo.gle/4dbno6V |
Benefits
Paid Sick Days, Performance Bonus, Professional Development, 401K, Stock Options, Employee Events, Retirement / Pension Plans, Tuition Reimbursement, Work From Home, Life Insurance, On Site Cafeteria
About Company
Build for everyone
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.
Learn more about Google’s benefits on this site featuring Googlers’ experience.
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.
Skills
- Androidunmatched
- Apple Macsunmatched
- Application Programming Interface (API)unmatched
- Artificial Intelligence (AI)unmatched
- Artificial Intelligence (AI) Natural Languageunmatched
- Business Growthunmatched
- C++ Programming Languageunmatched
- Canvasunmatched
- Computer Scienceunmatched
- Computer Softwareunmatched
- Cross-Functionalunmatched
- Data Storageunmatched
- Desktop Environmentsunmatched
- DirectXunmatched
- Distributed Computingunmatched
- Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO)unmatched
- Fontsunmatched
- Graphic Designunmatched
- Graphicsunmatched
- Graphics Programmingunmatched
- Information Retrievalunmatched
- Information/Data Security (InfoSec)unmatched
- Internet Searchunmatched
- Large-Scale Systemsunmatched
- Leadershipunmatched
- Linux Operating Systemunmatched
- Mobile Applicationsunmatched
- Multiplatform/Cross-Platformunmatched
- Natural Language Processing (NLP)unmatched
- Network Designunmatched
- Open Sourceunmatched
- OpenGL Programming Librariesunmatched
- Operating Systemsunmatched
- Problem Solving Skillsunmatched
- SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics)unmatched
- Software Developmentunmatched
- Software Engineeringunmatched
- Systems Maintenanceunmatched
- Technical Leadershipunmatched
- Technical/Engineering Designunmatched
- User Interface Designunmatched
- Web Designunmatched
- Web Programmingunmatched
- iOSunmatched
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