Senior Software Engineer, Kernel and Firmware, Silicon

2 weeks ago


Bengaluru, Karnataka, India Google Full time ₹ 12,00,000 - ₹ 36,00,000 per year
Minimum qualifications:
  • Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Electronics or Computer Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 5 years of work experience in development, testing and deployment of consumer electronics/embedded systems.
  • Experience in Linux networking, including network packet filtering, network protocol acceleration (or display pipeline), camera front-end and sensor Linux drivers, and video codecs.
  • Experience with embedded programming in C/C++.
Preferred qualifications:
  • Master's degree in Electrical, Electronics or Computer Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Experience with interface protocols (e.g., USB, SPI, I2C, UART, UFS, PCIe), power management, system integration, software stacks, and drivers.
  • Experience with ARM or other low-power SoC architectures, memory system, fabric, etc.
  • Knowledge of embedded systems development, RTOS concepts, device drivers and hardware/software integration.
  • Knowledge of ARM, system BIOS, Linux kernel, device drivers.
About the job

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.

With your technical expertise you will manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables. You will design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance software solutions.

As a Software Engineer, Kernel and Firmware, Silicon, you will work on hardware and software. We are a vertically integrated team spanning from hardware through applications.

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.

Responsibilities
  • Design a software that can ultimately delight our application developers, and can let them make use of hardware accelerators seamlessly and in a timely manner.
  • Implement and validate firmware and Linux drivers for optimal power and performance.
  • Design, develop, and test embedded software drivers for next-generation smart devices.
  • Define overall architecture in collaboration with stakeholders silicon architecture, silicon implementation, silicon software, and customer etc., to identify user experiences characteristics and how they can be mapped onto hardware in existence or in development.
  • Lead in bug triage and optimize for power and performance, etc.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.



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