diff --git a/mediapipe/calculators/tensor/universal_sentence_encoder_preprocessor_calculator.cc b/mediapipe/calculators/tensor/universal_sentence_encoder_preprocessor_calculator.cc
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e589289f6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/mediapipe/calculators/tensor/universal_sentence_encoder_preprocessor_calculator.cc
@@ -0,0 +1,167 @@
+// Copyright 2022 The MediaPipe Authors.
+//
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+// You may obtain a copy of the License at
+//
+//      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+//
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+// limitations under the License.
+
+#include <array>
+#include <cstring>
+#include <string>
+#include <vector>
+
+#include "absl/container/flat_hash_set.h"
+#include "absl/status/status.h"
+#include "absl/strings/string_view.h"
+#include "absl/strings/substitute.h"
+#include "mediapipe/framework/api2/node.h"
+#include "mediapipe/framework/api2/port.h"
+#include "mediapipe/framework/calculator_context.h"
+#include "mediapipe/framework/calculator_framework.h"
+#include "mediapipe/framework/formats/tensor.h"
+#include "mediapipe/tasks/cc/core/utils.h"
+#include "mediapipe/tasks/cc/metadata/metadata_extractor.h"
+
+namespace mediapipe {
+namespace api2 {
+
+using ::mediapipe::tasks::core::FindTensorIndexByMetadataName;
+using ::mediapipe::tasks::metadata::ModelMetadataExtractor;
+
+constexpr absl::string_view kQueryTextMetadataName = "inp_text";
+constexpr absl::string_view kResponseContextMetadataName = "res_context";
+constexpr absl::string_view kResponseTextMetadataName = "res_text";
+
+constexpr int kNumInputTensorsForUniversalSentenceEncoder = 3;
+
+// Preprocesses input text into three kTfLiteString input tensors for a
+// Universal Sentence Encoder (USE) model.
+//
+// The associated USE model is expected to contain input tensors with metadata
+// names:
+//
+// Tensor           | Metadata Name
+// ---------------- | ------------------
+// Query text       | "inp_text"
+// Response context | "res_context"
+// Response text    | "res_text"
+//
+// This calculator will return an error if the model does not have three input
+// tensors or if the tensors do not have metadata names corresponding to the
+// above names in some order. Additional details regarding these input
+// tensors are given in the Calculator "Outputs" section below.
+//
+// Inputs:
+//   TEXT - std::string
+//     The text to be embedded.
+// Side Inputs:
+//   METADATA_EXTRACTOR - ModelMetadataExtractor
+//     The metadata extractor for the USE model. Used to determine the order of
+//     the three input Tensors for the USE model.
+//
+// Outputs:
+//   TENSORS - std::vector<Tensor>
+//     Vector containing the three input Tensors for the USE model. The tensors
+//     fit a question-answering setting and store a query text, a response
+//     context, and a response text. This calculator will just be preprocessing
+//     a single input text that will be stored in the response text tensor. The
+//     query text and response context tensors will store empty strings.
+//
+// Example:
+// node {
+//   calculator: "UniversalSentenceEncoderPreprocessorCalculator"
+//   input_stream: "TEXT:text"
+//   input_side_packet: "METADATA_EXTRACTOR:metadata_extractor"
+//   output_stream: "TENSORS:tensors"
+// }
+class UniversalSentenceEncoderPreprocessorCalculator : public Node {
+ public:
+  static constexpr Input<std::string> kTextIn{"TEXT"};
+  static constexpr SideInput<ModelMetadataExtractor> kMetadataExtractorSideIn{
+      "METADATA_EXTRACTOR"};
+  static constexpr Output<std::vector<Tensor>> kTensorsOut{"TENSORS"};
+
+  MEDIAPIPE_NODE_CONTRACT(kTextIn, kMetadataExtractorSideIn, kTensorsOut);
+
+  absl::Status Open(CalculatorContext* cc) override;
+  absl::Status Process(CalculatorContext* cc) override;
+
+ private:
+  // Indices of the three input tensors for the USE model. They should form the
+  // set {0, 1, 2}.
+  int query_text_tensor_index_ = 0;
+  int response_context_tensor_index_ = 1;
+  int response_text_tensor_index_ = 2;
+
+  // Tensor shapes for the model's input tensors.
+  // The query text and response context tensors will only hold the empty
+  // string, so their tensors will have shape [0], but the Universal Sentence
+  // Encoder model's input signature requires them to be present. The response
+  // text tensor will store the embedding text and have shape
+  // [embedding_text_len].
+  std::array<int, kNumInputTensorsForUniversalSentenceEncoder> tensor_shapes_;
+};
+
+absl::Status UniversalSentenceEncoderPreprocessorCalculator::Open(
+    CalculatorContext* cc) {
+  const ModelMetadataExtractor* metadata_extractor =
+      &kMetadataExtractorSideIn(cc).Get();
+  auto* input_tensors_metadata = metadata_extractor->GetInputTensorMetadata();
+  query_text_tensor_index_ = FindTensorIndexByMetadataName(
+      input_tensors_metadata, kQueryTextMetadataName);
+  response_context_tensor_index_ = FindTensorIndexByMetadataName(
+      input_tensors_metadata, kResponseContextMetadataName);
+  response_text_tensor_index_ = FindTensorIndexByMetadataName(
+      input_tensors_metadata, kResponseTextMetadataName);
+
+  absl::flat_hash_set<int> tensor_indices = absl::flat_hash_set<int>(
+      {query_text_tensor_index_, response_context_tensor_index_,
+       response_text_tensor_index_});
+  if (tensor_indices != absl::flat_hash_set<int>({0, 1, 2})) {
+    return absl::InvalidArgumentError(absl::Substitute(
+        "Input tensor indices form the set {$0, $1, $2} rather than {0, 1, 2}",
+        query_text_tensor_index_, response_context_tensor_index_,
+        response_text_tensor_index_));
+  }
+  return absl::OkStatus();
+}
+
+absl::Status UniversalSentenceEncoderPreprocessorCalculator::Process(
+    CalculatorContext* cc) {
+  absl::string_view text = kTextIn(cc).Get();
+  const int text_len = static_cast<int>(text.length());
+  tensor_shapes_[response_text_tensor_index_] = text_len;
+
+  std::vector<Tensor> input_tensors;
+  input_tensors.reserve(kNumInputTensorsForUniversalSentenceEncoder);
+  for (int i = 0; i < kNumInputTensorsForUniversalSentenceEncoder; ++i) {
+    input_tensors.push_back(
+        {Tensor::ElementType::kChar, Tensor::Shape({tensor_shapes_[i]})});
+  }
+
+  std::memcpy(
+      input_tensors[query_text_tensor_index_].GetCpuWriteView().buffer<char>(),
+      "", 0);
+  std::memcpy(input_tensors[response_context_tensor_index_]
+                  .GetCpuWriteView()
+                  .buffer<char>(),
+              "", 0);
+  std::memcpy(input_tensors[response_text_tensor_index_]
+                  .GetCpuWriteView()
+                  .buffer<char>(),
+              text.data(), text_len * sizeof(char));
+  kTensorsOut(cc).Send(std::move(input_tensors));
+  return absl::OkStatus();
+}
+
+MEDIAPIPE_REGISTER_NODE(UniversalSentenceEncoderPreprocessorCalculator);
+
+}  // namespace api2
+}  // namespace mediapipe
diff --git a/mediapipe/calculators/tensor/universal_sentence_encoder_preprocessor_calculator_test.cc b/mediapipe/calculators/tensor/universal_sentence_encoder_preprocessor_calculator_test.cc
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d5f252b57
--- /dev/null
+++ b/mediapipe/calculators/tensor/universal_sentence_encoder_preprocessor_calculator_test.cc
@@ -0,0 +1,111 @@
+// Copyright 2022 The MediaPipe Authors.
+//
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+// You may obtain a copy of the License at
+//
+//      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+//
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+// limitations under the License.
+
+#include <memory>
+#include <vector>
+
+#include "absl/status/status.h"
+#include "absl/status/statusor.h"
+#include "absl/strings/string_view.h"
+#include "absl/strings/substitute.h"
+#include "mediapipe/framework/calculator_framework.h"
+#include "mediapipe/framework/formats/tensor.h"
+#include "mediapipe/framework/packet.h"
+#include "mediapipe/framework/port/gmock.h"
+#include "mediapipe/framework/port/gtest.h"
+#include "mediapipe/framework/port/parse_text_proto.h"
+#include "mediapipe/framework/port/status_macros.h"
+#include "mediapipe/framework/port/status_matchers.h"
+#include "mediapipe/framework/tool/options_map.h"
+#include "mediapipe/tasks/cc/core/utils.h"
+#include "mediapipe/tasks/cc/metadata/metadata_extractor.h"
+
+namespace mediapipe {
+namespace {
+
+using ::mediapipe::IsOkAndHolds;
+using ::mediapipe::tasks::metadata::ModelMetadataExtractor;
+using ::testing::ElementsAreArray;
+
+constexpr int kNumInputTensorsForUniversalSentenceEncoder = 3;
+
+constexpr absl::string_view kTestModelPath =
+    "mediapipe/tasks/testdata/text/"
+    "universal_sentence_encoder_qa_with_metadata.tflite";
+
+absl::StatusOr<std::vector<std::string>>
+RunUniversalSentenceEncoderPreprocessorCalculator(absl::string_view text) {
+  auto graph_config = ParseTextProtoOrDie<CalculatorGraphConfig>(R"pb(
+    input_stream: "text"
+    output_stream: "tensors"
+    node {
+      calculator: "UniversalSentenceEncoderPreprocessorCalculator"
+      input_stream: "TEXT:text"
+      input_side_packet: "METADATA_EXTRACTOR:metadata_extractor"
+      output_stream: "TENSORS:tensors"
+    }
+  )pb");
+  std::vector<Packet> output_packets;
+  tool::AddVectorSink("tensors", &graph_config, &output_packets);
+
+  std::string model_buffer =
+      tasks::core::LoadBinaryContent(kTestModelPath.data());
+  ASSIGN_OR_RETURN(std::unique_ptr<ModelMetadataExtractor> metadata_extractor,
+                   ModelMetadataExtractor::CreateFromModelBuffer(
+                       model_buffer.data(), model_buffer.size()));
+  // Run the graph.
+  CalculatorGraph graph;
+  MP_RETURN_IF_ERROR(graph.Initialize(
+      graph_config,
+      {{"metadata_extractor",
+        MakePacket<ModelMetadataExtractor>(std::move(*metadata_extractor))}}));
+  MP_RETURN_IF_ERROR(graph.StartRun({}));
+  MP_RETURN_IF_ERROR(graph.AddPacketToInputStream(
+      "text", MakePacket<std::string>(text).At(Timestamp(0))));
+  MP_RETURN_IF_ERROR(graph.WaitUntilIdle());
+
+  if (output_packets.size() != 1) {
+    return absl::InvalidArgumentError(absl::Substitute(
+        "output_packets has size $0, expected 1", output_packets.size()));
+  }
+
+  const std::vector<Tensor>& tensor_vec =
+      output_packets[0].Get<std::vector<Tensor>>();
+  if (tensor_vec.size() != kNumInputTensorsForUniversalSentenceEncoder) {
+    return absl::InvalidArgumentError(absl::Substitute(
+        "tensor_vec has size $0, expected $1", tensor_vec.size(),
+        kNumInputTensorsForUniversalSentenceEncoder));
+  }
+  if (tensor_vec[0].element_type() != Tensor::ElementType::kChar) {
+    return absl::InvalidArgumentError(absl::Substitute(
+        "tensor has element type $0, expected $1", tensor_vec[0].element_type(),
+        Tensor::ElementType::kChar));
+  }
+  std::vector<std::string> results;
+  for (int i = 0; i < kNumInputTensorsForUniversalSentenceEncoder; ++i) {
+    results.push_back(
+        {tensor_vec[i].GetCpuReadView().buffer<char>(),
+         static_cast<size_t>(tensor_vec[i].shape().num_elements())});
+  }
+  return results;
+}
+
+TEST(UniversalSentenceEncoderPreprocessorCalculatorTest, TestUSE) {
+  ASSERT_THAT(
+      RunUniversalSentenceEncoderPreprocessorCalculator("test_input_text"),
+      IsOkAndHolds(ElementsAreArray({"", "", "test_input_text"})));
+}
+
+}  // namespace
+}  // namespace mediapipe
diff --git a/mediapipe/tasks/testdata/text/BUILD b/mediapipe/tasks/testdata/text/BUILD
index a12e607bb..6cce5ae41 100644
--- a/mediapipe/tasks/testdata/text/BUILD
+++ b/mediapipe/tasks/testdata/text/BUILD
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ mediapipe_files(srcs = [
     "mobilebert_with_metadata.tflite",
     "test_model_text_classifier_bool_output.tflite",
     "test_model_text_classifier_with_regex_tokenizer.tflite",
+    "universal_sentence_encoder_qa_with_metadata.tflite",
 ])
 
 exports_files(srcs = [
@@ -89,3 +90,8 @@ filegroup(
     name = "mobilebert_embedding_model",
     srcs = ["mobilebert_embedding_with_metadata.tflite"],
 )
+
+filegroup(
+    name = "universal_sentence_encoder_qa",
+    data = ["universal_sentence_encoder_qa_with_metadata.tflite"],
+)
diff --git a/third_party/external_files.bzl b/third_party/external_files.bzl
index 3e651a3a0..b42019a17 100644
--- a/third_party/external_files.bzl
+++ b/third_party/external_files.bzl
@@ -736,6 +736,12 @@ def external_files():
         urls = ["https://storage.googleapis.com/mediapipe-assets/two_heads.tflite?generation=1661875968723352"],
     )
 
+    http_file(
+        name = "com_google_mediapipe_universal_sentence_encoder_qa_with_metadata_tflite",
+        sha256 = "82c2d0450aa458adbec2f78eff33cfbf2a41b606b44246726ab67373926e32bc",
+        urls = ["https://storage.googleapis.com/mediapipe-assets/universal_sentence_encoder_qa_with_metadata.tflite?generation=1665445919252005"],
+    )
+
     http_file(
         name = "com_google_mediapipe_vocab_for_regex_tokenizer_txt",
         sha256 = "b1134b10927a53ce4224bbc30ccf075c9969c94ebf40c368966d1dcf445ca923",