Partner Engineering Lead — Devices & OEM Alliances

Google; San Bruno (CA); On-site; USD 127,000 - 182,000; Full time

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Job summary

Google's YouTube team is seeking a Partner Engineer to lead deployments, optimize integrations, and manage partnerships with device manufacturers and mobile ecosystems. You will own technical engagements and craft innovative solutions to advance partnerships.

You will collaborate with Product, Engineering, Business Development, Operations, and Marketing to improve operations, define new solutions, and automate partner workflows from concept to deployment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 3 years of experience working with client-side web technologies (e.g., HTML, CSS, JavaScript, or HTTP).
• 3 years of experience coding with one or more programming languages (e.g., Java, C/C++, Python).
• Experience troubleshooting technical issues for internal/external partners or customers.

Responsibilities

• Act as the primary technical liaison, aligning YouTube's cross-functional product, UX, legal, and video infrastructure teams with global mobile OEMs, SoC vendors, and carriers to deploy YouTube's innovations.
• Lead co-engineering initiatives to adapt YouTube apps to the hardware profiles, ensuring flawless UI navigation, low-latency playback, and optimized resource consumption across billions of devices.
• Synchronize client-side player engines with backend transcoding pipelines to drive the global adoption of advanced media codecs. Partner directly to external engineering teams to isolate, debug, and resolve platform-level regressions—such as audio/video sync errors, playback crashes— before production releases.
• Design and enforce strict hardware/software certification workflows, validating compliance with security protocols, Widevine DRM, and YouTube’s internal quality standards.
• Leverage client-side playback telemetry and automated testing frameworks to identify ecosystem-wide performance trends, translating insights into improvements for YouTube’s core streaming architecture.

Skills

Client-side tech

Programming languages

Troubleshooting

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Google's YouTube team is seeking a Partner Engineer to lead deployments, optimize integrations, and manage partnerships with device manufacturers and mobile ecosystems. You will own technical engagements and craft innovative solutions to advance partnerships.

You will collaborate with Product, Engineering, Business Development, Operations, and Marketing to improve operations, define new solutions, and automate partner workflows from concept to deployment.