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Google · 1 month ago

Staff Software Engineer, Silicon Systems Engineering and Architecture

Mountain View, CA, USA

Full-time

Onsite

Lead/Staff

$197K/yr - $291K/yr

8+ years exp

Google is a leading technology company that develops next-generation technologies to change how billions of users connect and interact with information. The Staff Software Engineer will be responsible for delivering software and hardware co-design of system architectures for future SoCs, contributing to the overall software and hardware architecture designs, and collaborating across teams to move the architecture design into production.

AppsArtificial Intelligence (AI)Cloud StorageSearch EngineSEO

Growth Opportunities

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Provide technical leadership for software/hardware co-design of new Security Operations Center (SoCs)

Contribute to the software and hardware architecture designs for Google’s future SoCs and software features

Build prototype and production software across the android stack including kernel, BSP, framework, and application to prove the feasibility of designs

Build prototype and production software for embedded software stacks running inside Google’s SoCs

Collaborate across organizations and teams to move the architecture design into production

Qualification

C/C++Embedded systemsSoftware designLinux kernel developmentHardware co-designAndroid platformSystem architectureDebuggingLeadershipCollaboration

Required

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

8 years of experience in software development (e.g. C, C++)

5 years of experience testing, and launching software products

5 years of experience working with embedded systems and hardware related system software

3 years of experience with software design and architecture

Preferred

Master's degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field

10 years of experience in system software development including kernel, driver, android platform, and system services using C/C++

Experience in developing Linux kernel software, linux driver development, and debugging

Experience in software, hardware co-design or influencing hardware design from software perspective

Experience working with android platform

Experience with system components like CPU, GPU, TPU / NPU, memory, PCIe

Benefits

Bonus

Equity

Benefits

Company

Google

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Google specializes in internet-related services and products, including search, advertising, and software. It is a sub-organization of Alphabet.

Founded in 1998

Mountain View, California, USA

10001+ employees

https://www.google.com

H1B Sponsorship

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Funding

Current Stage

Public Company

Total Funding

$26.1M

Key Investors

Andy Bechtolsheim

2004-08-19IPO

1999-06-07Series Unknown· $25M

1998-11-01Angel· $1M

Leadership Team

Sundar Pichai

CEO

Thomas Kurian

CEO - Google Cloud

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