Software Engineer, Audio Codecs, Google

The area: Chrome and Apps
The web is what you make of it, and the Chrome and Apps team is helping the world make more of the web. From open-source pros to user-experience extraordinaires, the team develops products like Chrome OS, Gmail and Google Docs that help users connect, communicate and collaborate with others. Our consumer products and Enterprise platforms are giving millions of users at homes, businesses, universities and nonprofits around the world the tools that shape their web experience -- and changing the way they think about computing.
The role: Software Engineer, Audio Codecs - Stockholm
Google's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how millions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. Our ambitions reach far beyond just Search. Our products need to handle information at the the scale of the web. We're looking for ideas from every area of computer science, including information retrieval, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking, security, data compression, and user interface design; the list goes on and is growing every day. As a software engineer, you work on a small team and can switch teams and projects as our fast-paced business grows and evolves. We need our engineers to be versatile and passionate to tackle new problems as we continue to push technology forward.
Responsibilities:
- Propose, prototype and evaluate multiple areas of optimization in voice processing, audio compression, noise suppression, acoustic echo cancellation and delivery.
- Create robust implementations for multiple operating systems and embedded platforms.
- Hands-on code contribution and shipping responsibility - libraries, API's, documentation.
- Coordinate with other product teams for integration into their products.
Minimum qualifications:
- PhD in Computer Science or related technical field (In lieu of degree, relevant skills or equivalent experience).
- Previous employment at another Google entity required.

Languages, English/Swedish/Chinese

Start date - September 1st, 2013
Salary 46 000 SEK/month

HR contact - Zoe Themeli e-mail address is zoet@google.com; Tel. +44 207 346 2556