Senior Software Engineer, Pigweed

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience with low level development (e.g., embedded, high frequency trading, games, scientific computing).
• Experience developing software applications using the C++ programming language.
• Experience with object-oriented programming, templates, and the Standard Template Library (STL).

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with C and C++ or low-level engineering (e.g., pointers, memory management).
• Experience with Rust.
• Experience with microcontroller and embedded.
• Experience with Python.
• Experience with Bazel.

Google's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. Our products need to handle information at massive scale, and extend well beyond web search. We're looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas from all areas, including information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking and data storage, security, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, UI design and mobile; the list goes on and is growing every day. As a software engineer, you will work on a specific project critical to Google’s needs with opportunities to switch teams and projects as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve. We need our engineers to be versatile, display leadership qualities and be enthusiastic to take on new problems across the full-stack as we continue to push technology forward.

We build and maintain Pigweed, a modern microcontroller platform for Google and others. We help teams get to market faster with better products, by relieving them of many low-level microcontroller concerns, such as building a new logging system, a new factory test system, continuous on-hardware platform tests, unit testing systems, etc. Our long-term goal is to have most microcontrollers in products shipped by Google running our platform in whole or in part.

Part of our ethos is to enhance the microcontroller software world, by bringing modern practices to the traditionally C-oriented and conservative embedded software ecosystem. We will also enable non-embedded engineers to develop production-grade embedded firmware.

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.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $161,000-$239,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

• Design and develop microcontroller platform modules (e.g., OTA, crash handling, logging, bootloaders, size analysis tooling, kernel development). This will involve low-level C, C++, Rust, occasional assembly, as well as Python-level scripting and test development.
• Help define the areas that are most impactful for the team to create by learning about customer needs. These new modules may be written in C++, Rust, Python, Java, or TypeScript as appropriate.
• Support client teams to ensure their success. This may at times, include travelling to factories across the ocean to help with bringup (though this is unusual and optional).