8 hours ago
Bucharest, RomaniaMid Level
Responsibilities
- Capture and analyze deep performance traces to diagnose frame pacing anomalies, memory pressure, and thermal throttling in top mobile games.
- Develop isolated reproduction benchmarks and automated profiling test harnesses for complex game engine workloads.
- Prototype and implement optimizations in native game engine runtimes and Android platform subsystems.
- Partner with Android telemetry and graphics teams to integrate performance metrics and validate field improvements.
- Author diagnostic documentation and reproduction playbooks for game studios and engine maintainers.
- Comply with company health and safety policies, procedures, and legal requirements.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
- At least 1 year of software development experience in one or more programming languages.
- At least 1 year of experience with data structures and algorithms.
- Preferred: master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Preferred: experience with C++, C#, Java, or Rust software development.
- Preferred: familiarity with game development, Unity, Unreal Engine, Vulkan, or OpenGL ES.
- Preferred: familiarity with Perfetto, GPU counters, RenderDoc, or Linux perf.
- Preferred: interest in mobile graphics pipelines, frame scheduling, and native memory management.
- Strong problem-solving skills and curiosity for investigating complex, multithreaded native software systems.
Benefits
- Role based in Romania.
- Includes a 15% bonus target, equity, and employee benefits.
Tech Stack
Categories
Gaming
About Google
Google builds consumer and enterprise software and services including Search, Android, YouTube, Chrome, Maps, Gmail, and Google Cloud. Its business model centers on digital advertising and paid cloud, software, and hardware offerings (e.g., Pixel and Nest) for consumers, developers, and organizations. Founded in 1998 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, Google operates globally as a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc.