Software Engineer III, Embedded Systems/Firmware, Hardware

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages, or 1 year of experience with an advanced degree in an industry setting.
• 2 years of experience working with embedded operating systems.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field.
• 4 years of experience with embedded systems and software development.
• Experience with electronic and mechanical prototyping, hardware/software integration for interactive design, sensor processing and integration (e.g., point cloud, image, voice, gesture).
• Experience with embedded systems, processor architecture, various communication protocols (USB C, SPI, I2C, UART, MIPI, DSI), and Python/C++ scripting.
• Experience with embedded systems, firmware, device driver development, and debugging.

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.Google is an engineering company at heart. We hire people with a broad set of technical skills who are ready to take on some of technology's greatest challenges and make an impact on users around the world. At Google, engineers not only revolutionize search, they routinely work on scalability and storage solutions, large-scale applications and entirely new platforms for developers around the world. From Google Ads to Chrome, Android to YouTube, social to local, Google engineers are changing the world one technological achievement after another.

Responsibilities

• Architect and develop embedded systems for intelligent edge sensing applications.
• Develop firmware and drivers for embedded systems.
• Collaborate with ML engineers to implement real-time ML sensing applications.
• Optimize embedded ML model performance in terms of power, latency, and memory usage.
• Create prototypes to demonstrate new edge sensing features.