“Opening an office in Cambridge was a great strategic decision for Google with the greater Boston area having such a rich combination of universities, innovative high tech companies, and many Google business partners and customers.”
- Steve Vinter, Engineering Director
Google Boston is a growing Sales and Engineering office located on the banks of the Charles River in Kendall Square in Cambridge. The team features a diverse and expanding engineering group as well as a key component to our North American advertising business.
Engineering teams in our Boston office work on large scale distributed systems, performance tuning, web applications and mobile platforms. At all times, we match projects with our employees' background and interests. Boston engineers are experts in C++, Java, AJAX and HTML and are currently focusing on these key areas:
We parse user queries, select and rank matching pages, and summarize results for the user. We have a team of experts who are world-renowned experts in a variety of technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI), data mining, machine learning and information retrieval and extraction. Ever wonder how Google Book Search works? We help make that happen!
We work on products that our users love! These include Image Search, Friend Connect, and other next generation social networking applications that are too cool to talk about yet!
We have teams working on key components of the Google infrastructure such as the Google File System, Big Table and MapReduce. These groups focus on distributed computing, large-scale infrastructure, content delivery and network performance tuning. Our team also helps to make Youtube and Google Video bigger and better. It's so exciting that you probably won't believe it's work!
We are developing applications to make your mobile computing experience better. We can't get into too much detail about the specifics but it's safe to say you'll find it very interesting!
We also work on projects to make browsing the web faster and better, including Chrome and Chrome OS.
5 Cambridge Center
Floors 3-6
Cambridge, MA 02142
Phone: (617) 575-1300
Fax: (617) 575-1301
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