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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
- 10 years of experience in software engineering.
- 3 years of experience in mobile engineering (e.g., iOS or Android) or mobile media experience (e.g., codecs or graphics).
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience as a tech lead, a formal mentor, or a go-to expert for a team.
- Experience working with video, music, or other media-related products.
- Experience in designing, building, and operating systems at large-scale.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to articulate technical concepts to audiences.
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.
With your technical expertise you will manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables. You will design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance software solutions.
The YouTube Playback Experience team is responsible for video playback on all screens and critical to enable this core user journey.
US: $262000 - $364000 (USD) + 25% bonus target + equity + benefits
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Responsibilities:
- Lead client media innovation to bring next-generation codecs and formats (e.g., AV1/2, Spatial Audio) to users. Enable innovative video experiences by leveraging on-device GPU and NPU for advanced rendering effects while contributing to the advancement of networking and crypto stacks.
- Evolve the mobile player architecture and platform to deliver the best playback experience across all YouTube products (Main, Music, Kids, YTV) and video formats (VOD, shorts, live, encrypted content).
- Drive deep investigative work to unlock performance at scale.
- Foster strong partnerships and technical collaboration with internal teams (YouTube Apps, Infrastructure, AOM, Android, Pixel) and industry partners (OEMs, SOCs, network operators, technical standards bodies).
- Embrace and experiment with emerging technologies such as GenAI.
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