Google is advertising for an interactive TV product manager at Mountain View. They also want software engineers with experience of “emerging TV standards” and “deploying robust, high-volume applications for consumer devices” in the U.S. and London offices.

The first post is for identifying “projects that enable using Google’s search and advertising technologies to enhance users’ television viewing experience.”

It seems that Google, like Apple, Sony and Microsoft, are aiming at moving into the IPTV field which would allow person-specific advertising based on its contextual model, Adsense.