Senior Software Engineer, XR World Context — Google Switzerland
- Location
- Zürich
- Contract
- full-time
- Posted
- 8 days ago
Role overview
Minimum qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Computer Vision, Robotics, 3D sensing, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
5 years of experience in Computer Vision, Robotics, or related fields.
- Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Vision, Robotics, 3D sensing, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Design, implement, and deploy lightweight scene representations to capture world-facing context signals and enable contextual triggers and panel placement for XR glasses.
- Create suitable ego-centric datasets, as well as the fusion and evaluation of different foundation models for building robust object- and scene-centric representations in real-time.
- 5 years of experience in Computer Vision, Robotics, or related fields.
Main responsibilities
- Design, implement, and deploy lightweight scene representations to capture world-facing context signals and enable contextual triggers and panel placement for XR glasses.
- Create suitable ego-centric datasets, as well as the fusion and evaluation of different foundation models for building robust object- and scene-centric representations in real-time.
- Interface these representations with Gemini/Gemma variants.
- This unlocks powerful context-aware AI capabilities, such as voice-based spatial placement and on-device scene understanding for Spatial Gemini.
- Create and curate suitable ego-centric datasets, as well as the fusion and evaluation of different foundation models for building robust object- and scene-centric representations in real-time.
Key requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Vision, Robotics, 3D sensing, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 5 years of experience in Computer Vision, Robotics, or related fields.
- Experience contributing to research in the field of 3D surface reconstruction and semantic scene understanding.
Additional details
- Strong skills in modern ML frameworks, VLMs, 3D math, real-time system implications of ML workloads.
- This is more than just new devices – it's about reimagining how we interact with the world around us. We're building a future where
Notes and original content
- About the job
- This is more than just new devices – it's about reimagining how we interact with the world around us.
- We're building a future where
- Responsibilities
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What salary does Google Switzerland offer for this role?
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