Silicon Software Engineering Manager, Embedded Systems

Google; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,500,000 - 6,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Google Silicon is seeking a Software Engineering Manager to lead an engineering team across pre‑silicon and post‑silicon validation of custom SoCs. You will drive boot platform software and low‑level drivers for silicon validation and SLT, while guiding firmware and system software for key IP blocks.

You will mentor engineers, shape architecture, and oversee cross‑functional efforts in power, peripherals, memory, security, and performance across multiple sites.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical, Electronics Engineering, CS or equivalent.
• 8 years experience with interface protocols, power mgmt, system-integration stacks and drivers.
• 2 years experience in people management/supervision.
• Experience in embedded systems development, RTOS concepts, device drivers and hardware/software integration.

Responsibilities

• Lead an engineering team in driving software strategy, architecture, and execution for pre‑silicon and post‑silicon validation across custom SoC families.
• Deliver boot platform software and low-level drivers for silicon validation and SLT.
• Develop firmware and system software for IP blocks including power, peripherals, memory modules, etc.
• Drive software development across core domains including platform software, security architectures, and system power/performance.
• Mentor and guide team members on software architecture, code quality, and engineering best practices.

Skills

Interface protocols

Power management

Embedded systems

RTOS concepts

Device drivers

People management

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

ARM

System BIOS

Device drivers

Job description

In most instances, this position requires in-person interviews as part of the hiring process.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical, Electronics Engineering, Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience with interface protocols (e.g., USB, SPI, I2C, UART, UFS, PCIe), power management, system-integration software stacks, and drivers.
• 2 years of experience in a people management, supervision/team leadership role.
• Experience in embedded systems development, RTOS concepts, device drivers and hardware/software integration.

Preferred qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Electronics or Computer streams, or equivalent practical experience.
• 12 years of experience in development, testing and deployment of consumer electronics/embedded systems.
• Experience with embedded programming in C/C++.
• Experience with embedded systems, kernel, RTOS or firmware, device driver.
• Knowledge of ARM, system BIOS, device drivers.

About The Job

Like Google's own ambitions, the work of a Software Engineer goes way beyond just Search. Software Engineering Managers have not only the technical expertise to take on and provide technical leadership to major projects, but also manage a team of engineers. You not only optimize your own code but make sure engineers are able to optimize theirs. As a Software Engineering Manager you manage your project goals, contribute to product strategy and help develop your team. Teams work all across the company, in areas such as information retrieval, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking, security, data compression, user interface design; the list goes on and is growing every day. Operating with scale and speed, our exceptional software engineers are just getting started -- and as a manager, you guide the way.

With technical and leadership expertise, you manage engineers across multiple teams and locations, a large product budget and oversee the deployment of large-scale projects across multiple sites internationally.

Google Silicon is a custom silicon group in consumer hardware. The SiValSW (Silicon Validation Software) team's mission is to create a unified development platform for system software (SoCs, infrastructures, and accelerators/custom-IPs) with backends on emulator, simulator, and silicon. The team develops portable and reusable system software scaled across different families and tiers of SoCs, and supports system software deployment for tape-out, bring-up, and validation efforts across both Silicon Validation (SiVal) and System Level Test (SLT).

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

• Lead an engineering team in driving software strategy, architectural design, and execution for pre‑silicon and post‑silicon validation across custom SoC families.
• Deliver boot platform software and lowlevel drivers tailored for silicon validation and SLT execution.
• Develop firmware and system software for key IP blocks, including power, peripherals, memory modules etc.
• Drive software development across core domains including platform software (BSP, firmware, drivers), security architecture/systems, and system power and performance.
• Mentor and guide team members on software architecture, code quality, and engineering best practices, fostering technical excellence.

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 .