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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>FYI<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> Marc Levoy [mailto:levoy@google.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, October 31, 2016 10:45 PM<br><b>Subject:</b> Open positions in vision, computational photography, and machine learning<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><pre><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>Colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>tl;dr. My team at Google is scaling up, and looking to hire 10 or more people<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>in the next year in vision, computational photography, and machine learning.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>Some background: as you may have heard, the Google Pixel and Pixel XL<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>smartphones were recently rated the best mobile camera in the world:<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'> <a href="https://www.dxomark.com/Mobiles/Pixel-smartphone-camera-review-At-the-top">https://www.dxomark.com/Mobiles/Pixel-smartphone-camera-review-At-the-top</a><o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>More importantly, reviews of the phone and its camera have been strong, with<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>reviewers singling out HDR+ as a key feature, and many reviewers saying that<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>the Pixel's camera is better than iPhone 7's:<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'> <a href="http://www.theverge.com/2016/10/27/13425282/google-pixel-camera-auto-hdr-low-light-feature">http://www.theverge.com/2016/10/27/13425282/google-pixel-camera-auto-hdr-low-light-feature</a><o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'> <a href="http://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2016/10/29/13466786/google-pixel-photo-better-than-iphone">http://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2016/10/29/13466786/google-pixel-photo-better-than-iphone</a><o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>As you might expect, these headlines have generated excitement in Google's<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>executive suite. One upshot of this buzz is that Google plans to double down<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>on mobile photography and novel camera experiences. This means hiring more<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>people, and since my team wrote HDR+, we're front and center in this effort.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>As a result, I am looking to immediately hire 10 or more people with skills in<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>computer graphics, computer vision, computational photography, computational<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>video, languages, camera hardware, embedded systems as they relate to graphics<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>and vision, and machine learning. For the last one, I'm looking for ML people<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>who have also pushed pixels.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>From academia I'm particularly interested in graduating PhD students, although<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>I'll consider talented MS graduates. Applicants must be strong coders<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>(including C or C++), passionate about photography and video, and preferably<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>know enough about machine learning to hit the ground running on projects that<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>combine ML with computational photography. As most readers of this email will<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>know, my team open sources some of our projects, most notably Halide, and we<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>encourage publication. For example, Jon Barron just won Best Paper Honorable<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>Mention at ECCV 2016 for his paper on the fast bilateral solver, and we have<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>three papers appearing at SIGGRAPH Asia 2016, including one about HDR+ ("Burst<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>photography for high dynamic range and low-light imaging on mobile cameras",<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>by Samuel Hasinoff et al.)<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>So please ask your interested graduating students to send an email to me,<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'><a href="mailto:levoy@google.com">levoy@google.com</a>. Readers should also feel free to ping their friends and<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>colleagues who have already graduated and are looking for new opportunities<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>(in the Bay Area). We also have a few Summer 2017 internships available.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>-Marc Levoy<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'> Principal Engineer<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'> Google Research<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre></div></div></body></html>