Software Engineer, Kernel and Firmware Silicon

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Electronics, or Computer streams, or equivalent practical experience.
• 1 year of experience with software development in one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, C, C++, Java, JavaScript).
• 1 year of work experience in development, testing, and deployment of consumer electronics/embedded systems.
• 1 year of experience with data structures or algorithms.
• Experience with embedded systems, kernel, Linux, RTOS or firmware, device driver.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in Electrical, Electronics, or Computer streams, and in Embedded domain, data structures, algorithms, and software design.
• Experience working with hardware designers and reading schematics.
• Experience with ARM or other low-power SoC architectures, memory system, fabric, Linux kernel, device drivers, etc.
• Experience with interface protocols (e.g., USB, SPI, I2C, UART, UFS, PCIe), power management, system integration, software stacks, drivers.
• Experience with performance analysis.
• Knowledge of embedded systems development, RTOS concepts, device drivers and hardware/software integration.

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.

Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. Our team combines the best of Google AI, Software, and Hardware to create radically helpful experiences. We research, design, and develop new technologies and hardware to make computing faster, seamless, and more powerful. We aim to make people's lives better through technology.

• Design software for application developers that make use of hardware accelerators seamlessly and in a timely manner.
• Implement and validate firmware and Linux drivers for optimal power consumption and performance.
• Design, development, and test embedded software drivers for the next generation of smart devices.