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It’s a beautiful day in this neighborhood: growing in Pittsburgh
December 8, 2010
Nearly five years ago, we announced that we would begin building an engineering presence in Pittsburgh, a city with a
strong technology ecosystem
as well as
an entrepreneurial spirit
and
great quality of life
. Since then, we’ve grown from two engineers to more than 150, and
we’re continuing our commitment to growth
in the region as we've officially opened a new Google Pittsburgh office in an old Nabisco factory in
Bakery Square
.
The
Collaborative Innovation Center
at
Carnegie Mellon University
had been our home since 2006, and our relationship with CMU remains invaluable to us. On top of the strong pipeline of brilliant engineers emerging from local universities, we’re seeing a “boomerang effect” of Pittsburghers who previously believed they had to go elsewhere to succeed with careers in computer science and engineering. We hope that the scrappy start-up culture we’ve maintained from the beginning at Google Pittsburgh as well as the burgeoning tech community throughout the city continues to encourage them to consider coming home.
In addition to teams focused on core initiatives related to
Product Search
and
Ads Quality
, we’re proud to be home to 20% time projects including the
Sky Map planetarium app
for Android phones, which combines astronomy, physics and computer science to put the galaxies in your pocket (and now includes the
ability to time travel
!) and
Sky in Google Earth
, which enables you to look upward from your position in Google Earth to view the heavenly objects above.
Luis von Ahn and his reCAPTCHA team
lead development of a technology that improves the process of converting scanned images into plain text, which powers initiatives like Google Books, and we welcome our first Enterprise sales leads who are working to help businesses and organizations in the region consider the benefits of
cloud computing with Google Apps
.
Our almost-40,000 square-foot space is
Googley
in many ways, but my favorite characteristics include a climbable trapeze net that extends from our second floor into thin air and a massive cookie-dough mixer preserved from the former Nabisco factory, which pays homage to Bakery Square’s manufacturing heritage.
If this sounds like the place for you,
take a look at our open jobs and apply
. We’re growing in Pittsburgh.
Posted by Andrew Moore, Engineering Director, Google Pittsburgh
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