Research Software Engineer, Computer Vision

Salary: CHF 160'000 - 200'000 per year

Requirements:

• Bachelors degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages.
• 3 years of experience with Computer Vision (image classification and processing, object detection, visual search), video generation, or signal processing; and experience designing Computer Vision systems.
• 3 years of experience with ML infrastructure (e.g., model deployment, model evaluation, data processing, debugging).
• Publication record in AI conferences (e.g., NeurIPS, CVPR, ICCV, ICLR).
• Masters degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field.
• Experience working in an industry or academic research lab, focusing on multiple aspects of the research to product pipeline, particularly model optimization and efficiency improvements.
• Familiarity with generative AI techniques, such as image diffusion models, and their application to visual enhancement.
• Strong background in 3D computer vision and deep learning, with specific, proven expertise in Gaussian Splatting (3DGS), Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF), and 3D scene reconstruction.

Responsibilities:

• Develop innovative computer vision and machine learning technology focused on 3D reconstruction, pose estimation, and novel view synthesis for XR applications.
• Drive the research, development, and optimization of 3D scene representation pipelines such as Gaussian Splatting and Neural Representations, including improving model efficiency, training stability, and visual fidelity for large-scale scenes.
• Establish and maintain relationships with main stakeholders and keep recurring updates on the advancements of the project, making sure that their expectations are aligned to the research and engineering work.

Technologies:

• 3D
• AI
• Computer Vision
• Machine Learning
• Mobile
• Security
• Web
• XR
• UX UI Design

More:

We are Google, and our software engineers develop next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. Our products operate at massive scale and go well beyond web search. We value fresh ideas across information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking and data storage, security, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, UI design, and mobile. In this role, you will join our XR Semantic Perception team, which develops core technology around computer vision and machine learning with a focus on scene and object understanding and 3D computer vision. You will work across the full range from research to product alongside Research Scientists and Software Engineers, supporting multiple perception-related products at Google with a particular focus on XR products and applications.

last updated 27 week of 2026