Camera Program Manager, Project Starline

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 8 years of experience in program management.
  
• 8 years of experience managing cross-functional or cross-team projects.
  

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with cameras, camera electronics, and imaging pipelines.
  
• Experience creating schedules and driving on time delivery for products in the consumer electronics or related spaces.
  
• Experience in Image quality analysis (e.g., MTF, SFR measurements, etc.).
  
• Experience lighting hardware, measurement, and tuning.
  
• Experience writing SOWs, and managing suppliers.
  

About the job

A problem isn’t truly solved until it’s solved for all. That’s why Googlers build products that help create opportunities for everyone, whether down the street or across the globe. As a Technical Program Manager at Google, you’ll use your technical expertise to lead complex, multi-disciplinary projects from start to finish. You’ll work with stakeholders to plan requirements, identify risks, manage project schedules, and communicate clearly with cross-functional partners across the company. You're equally comfortable explaining your team's analyses and recommendations to executives as you are discussing the technical tradeoffs in product development with engineers.

Our goal is to build a Google that looks like the world around us — and we want Googlers to stay and grow when they join us. As part of our efforts to build a Google for everyone, we build diversity, equity, and inclusion into our work and we aim to cultivate a sense of belonging throughout the company.

As a Program Manager, you will drive all aspects of our camera hardware, software, and imaging pipeline. You will help define and drive the development and production of our imaging module and camera electronics, including on-board processing. You will lead supplier management, supply chain management, test, and calibration. You will also drive firmware, software, and camera OS development. You will drive our image pipelines including image signal processing tuning, color pipelines, image quality assessments, and optimization. You will drive existing generations as well as future generation exploration.

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.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $168,000-$252,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

• Drive camera imaging module and electronics development, validation, test and manufacturing from concept to mass production.
  
• Drive camera firmware, software, and OS development.
  
• Lead image signal process and color pipeline tuning to optimize image quality alongside engineering counterparts.
  
• Develop and manage schedules, cross-team dependencies, risks, and mitigation's for all aspects of camera hardware, software, and image quality.
  
• Identify vendors for prototyping and mass production of complex hardware (e.g., custom PCBAs, PD parts, etc.), write statements of work (SOWs), and manage on time, on specification delivery.