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Senior Software Engineer, Device Architecture, Google Home

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5 hours ago
Mountain View, CA, USASenior
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Base Salary

$174k - $252k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Lead architecture pathfinding, exploratory investigations, and proof-of-concept software implementations for features and silicon architectures.
  • Drive technical engagements and prototyping sprints with external SoC vendors and business partners, evaluating reference software and aligning roadmaps.
  • Profile, diagnose, and optimize DRAM/Flash footprint, CPU utilization, and end-to-end latency.
  • Optimize embedded real-time audio/video pipelines and on-device ML execution across CPU, GPU, and NPU subsystems.
  • Create architectural blueprints and trade-off analyses for hardware, platform software, Product Management, and vendor engineering teams.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
  • At least five years of experience in embedded systems, OS internals, or system architecture.
  • At least five years of experience with embedded systems, OS internals, SoC architecture, Linux or RTOS subsystems, device drivers, board bring-up, and low-level system services.
  • At least five years of experience with C/C++.
  • Experience driving technical requirements, evaluations, and prototyping with silicon and third-party software vendors.
  • Preferred: master's degree or PhD in a related field, five years of data structures and algorithms experience, consumer hardware SoC architecture design experience, and proficiency with Perfetto or ftrace.

Benefits

  • Google benefits are provided; the posting directs candidates to Google’s benefits information.

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About Google

10,000+ employees

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.

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