Hardware Engineer, Pixel Power Analysis

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Physics, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• 2 years of experience in Power Management Integrated Circuit (PMIC) system power analysis, hardware/software optimizations, mobile engagement analysis, or a related technical field.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with hardware rework (e.g., identifying and removing/replacing components on a Printed Circuit Board (PCB)) and instrumentation (e.g., DAQs, oscilloscopes, etc.).
• Experience with System on a Chip (SoC) subsystems and power delivery including PMIC, CPU, GPU, memory, infrastructure, or power management.
• Experience with power/performance benchmarking analysis.
• Excellent programming skills.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

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 will 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.

• Work with cross-functional hardware, software, and systems teams to perform power or performance trade-off analysis and optimizations for a variety of use-cases.
• Analyze phone hardware for chipset analysis.
• Define, develop or utilize tools and methods for detailed power measurements and analysis including hardware modification, system profiling/tracing, or writing custom test scripts or applications.
• Propose and drive implementation of power optimization features across hardware and software.
• Participate in power and performance benchmarking of hardware (e.g., SoC, CPU, GPU, power management integrated circuit (PMIC) and more), software (e.g., firmware, kernel, Android/iOS, and more), and applications (e.g., multimedia, generative AI, and more) across internal and external platforms.