Minimum qualifications:
Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience.
5 years of experience in software development in the area of consumer electronics or other embedded systems.
3 years of experience working with ASIC architecture decisions from a software point of view.
Preferred qualifications:
Master's degree or PhD in Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science.
10 years of experience in software design and development for software layers found in ASIC (e.g., boot, drivers, embedded firmware, libraries, and API for applications).
Experience in debugging power and thermal issues on embedded systems and in SoC power optimization.
Knowledge of impact of software and architectural decisions on power and thermal behavior of the system.
About the job
Be part of a diverse team that pushes boundaries, developing custom silicon solutions that power the future of Google's direct-to-consumer products. You'll contribute to the innovation behind products loved by millions worldwide. Your expertise will shape the next generation of hardware experiences, delivering unparalleled performance, efficiency, and integration.
Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. Our Devices & Services team combines the best of Google AI, Software, and Hardware to create radically helpful experiences for users. We research, design, and develop new technologies and hardware to make our user's interaction with computing faster, seamless, and more powerful. Whether finding new ways to capture and sense the world around us, advancing form factors, or improving interaction methods, the Devices & Services team is making people's lives better through technology.
Responsibilities
Collaborate with stakeholders to identify user experience characteristics and how they can be mapped onto hardware and software.
Design architecture and software interfaces that enable application developers make use of hardware accelerators and other IP.
Understand interactions between hardware components, identify issues and bottlenecks, provide trade-off options, and drive them to resolution.
Help design and/or improve hardware from generation to generation based on lessons learned from productization efforts, and to reduce technical debt.
Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.
