Software Engineer, Kernel and Firmware, Silicon Engineering

Google; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,600,000; Full time

Job summary

Google Bengaluru seeks a Software Engineer, Kernel and Firmware, to design software that enables hardware accelerators and to develop drivers for embedded systems.

You will collaborate with hardware teams, implement Linux drivers, and focus on power-efficient, high-performance embedded software for Google devices.

Qualifications

• Must have a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 1 year of development, testing and deployment in embedded systems.
• 1 year experience with embedded C programming.

Responsibilities

• Design software to enable hardware accelerators for developers.
• Implement and validate firmware and Linux drivers for power and performance.
• Develop embedded software drivers for next-gen devices.

Skills

Embedded C

Embedded systems

Linux kernel

RTOS

Device drivers

Reading schematics

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Master's/PhD in CS or related

Job description

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 1 year of experience in development, testing and deployment of consumer electronics/embedded systems.
• 1 year experience with embedded programming in C.
• Experience with embedded systems, kernel, Linux, Real-Time Operating System (RTOS) or firmware, device driver.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field.
• Foundation/experience in Electrical, Electronics or Computer streams with competencies in Embedded domain, data structures and algorithms, and software design.
• Experience working closely with hardware designers and reading schematics.
• Experience with ARM or other low-power System on a Chip (SoC) architectures, memory system, fabric, Linux kernel, device drivers etc.
• Experience with interface protocols (e.g., USB, SPI, I2C, UART, UFS, Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe)), power management, system integration, software stacks, drivers.

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.

We are a vertically integrated team spanning from hardware through applications. As a Software Engineer, Kernel and Firmware, Silicon, you will work on hardware and software.

The Platforms and Devices team encompasses Google's various computing software platforms across environments (desktop, mobile, applications), as well as our first party devices and services that combine the best of Google AI, software, and hardware. Teams across this area research, design, and develop new technologies to make our user's interaction with computing faster and more seamless, building innovative experiences for our users around the world.

Responsibilities

• Design a software that can ultimately delight our application developers, and that can let them make use of hardware accelerators seamlessly and in a timely manner.
• Implement and validate firmware and Linux drivers for optimal power consumption and performance.
• Design, development, and test embedded software drivers for the next generation of smart devices.

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