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Senior Optical Sensor Engineer, Sensor Roadmapping/Display Team Liason

Google
California, USA
Senior · 4+ years experience
Onsite
USD 159000-230000 / year
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Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain strategic relationships with external optical sensor vendors to influence industry roadmaps and co-develop next-generation sensor solutions for Pixel, Nest, Fitbit, and XR hardware programs.
  • Partner to analyze upcoming display technologies and proactively forecast the technical challenges they present to under-display optical sensing.
  • Collaborate on the design, prototyping, and testing of next-generation optical sensing solutions.
  • Align on sensor data quality requirements to ensure displays consistently meet premium user experience (UX) and performance standards.
  • Coordinate on physical/architectural integration to ensure optical sensors are seamlessly incorporated into product designs while meeting performance goals.

Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Physics, or a specialized field (e.g., Optics, Sensors, Audio/DSP, etc.), or equivalent practical experience.
  • 4 years of experience working with optical sensor technology specifically in the Visible and Near-Infrared (VIS-NIR) spectrum.
  • 2 years of experience with Consumer Electronics mass production processes (Final Assembly, Test, and Packout and Validation) and program lifecycle.
  • Experience communicating cross functionally without authority, to influence technical direction (from low level engineer to leadership).

Preferred qualifications:

  • Master's degree or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics, or a related field (e.g., Optics, Sensors, Audio/DSP).
  • Optical sensor system integration experience in consumer electronics systems.
  • Familiarity with field of Color Science, specifically White point Adaptation.
  • Familiarity with Display panel architecture and current state-of-art.
  • Ability to communicate in Chinese and English with stakeholders is preferred.
  • Optical simulation capability using Ansys Zemax OpticStudio or similar.

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