Senior Software Engineer, Embedded Systems, ChromeOS

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 5 years of experience with software development in C/C++.
• 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 1 year of experience with software design and architecture.
  
• 3 years of experience in embedded systems (firmware, Linux kernel, device drivers).

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's or PhD degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.
• 5 years of experience with data structures/algorithms.
• Experience building consumer electronics and an understanding of the entire product life cycle from design to manufacturing and customer support.
• Experience developing in a Linux, Android or ChromeOS environment.
• Experience in coreboot, fastboot, or other relevant open-source projects.

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.

As a Firmware Engineer on our team, you'll work at the heart of the hardware-software interface. You will address everything from bringing up brand-new devices to optimizing bootloaders and contributing to open-source projects like coreboot. This is a role for engineers who love to solve low-level problems, and see their work ship on a massive scale. You will also improve the scalability and maintainability of our existing codebase and collaborate with an external Original Design Manufacturer (ODMs), Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEMs), System on a Chip (SoC) vendors, and internal teams around the globe.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate and improve firmware and processes for scalability and maintainability.
• Collaborate with a global team of software and hardware engineers on new technology proposals and process improvements.
• Maintain our quality bar by increasing unit and integration test coverage.
• Design, develop, and launch production-level firmware for laptops and tablets.