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Google · 9 hours ago

System Software and Performance Engineer, Silicon

Mountain View, CA

Full-time

Onsite

Mid Level

$132K/yr - $189K/yr

4+ years exp

Google is a company that aims to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. They are seeking a System Software and Performance Engineer to contribute to the development of custom silicon solutions that enhance the performance and efficiency of their consumer products.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)Cloud ComputingAppsMarketingCloud StorageSearch EngineSEO

Growth Opportunities

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Perform in-depth search analysis on workloads and kernels to identify performance bottlenecks and others miss

Plan and evaluate ARM architecture features, providing data-driven insights that shape future SoC designs

Partner with Android workload owners, tool-chain experts, and device teams to implement full-system optimizations

Design the benchmarks and modeling methodology that will define the next decade of hardware/software co-design

Qualification

C/C++ programmingLinux kernel experiencePerformance analysisJava programmingPython scriptingFast learnerComfortable with ambiguityDiving into new territories

Required

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience

4 years of experience with programming in C/C++ or Java, and scripting languages (e.g., Python)

Experience in one or more of the following three areas: linux kernel (e.g., processes, threads, scheduling, syscalls, interrupts and exceptions), toolchains (e.g., compilers, JIT compilation and symbolization) or, android system software stack

Experience conducting full-stack performance analysis and optimization on software systems

Preferred

Master's degree or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or Computer Science, with an emphasis on computer architecture

Ability to be a fast and effective learner and to be comfortable with working on issues with ambiguity

Ability to diving into new technical territories

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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Trends of Total Sponsorships

2025 (8763)

2024 (8872)

2023 (9682)

2022 (11626)

2021 (9109)

2020 (9785)

Funding

Current Stage

Public Company

Total Funding

$26.1M

Key Investors

Kleiner Perkins,Sequoia CapitalAndy 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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