Senior Device Architecture Engineer — Embedded Systems & SoC

Google Inc.; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 174,000 - 252,000; Full time

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Job summary

Google Home's System Architecture team defines foundations across first-party and partner devices, balancing silicon capabilities, embedded OS layers, and real-time pipelines. You will lead architecture pathfinding, prototype with silicon vendors, optimize DRAM/CPU usage, and drive cross-functional collaboration for end-to-end latency and on-device ML execution.

This role involves shaping hardware-software platform strategy and working across product teams to deliver scalable, high-performance

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in embedded systems, OS internals, or system architecture.
• 5 years of experience in embedded systems, OS internals, SoC architecture, Linux or RTOS subsystems, device drivers, board bring-up, and low-level system services.
• 5 years of experience in C/C++.
• Experience driving technical requirements, evaluations, and prototyping with silicon and third-party software vendors.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture pathfinding, exploratory investigations, and proof-of-concept (PoC) software implementations to evaluate features and silicon architectures.
• Drive technical engagements and prototyping sprints with external SoC vendors and business partners, evaluating vendor reference software and steering roadmap alignments.
• Profile, diagnose, and optimize system-level resource utilization—specifically targeting DRAM/Flash footprint reduction, CPU load optimization, and end-to-end latency.
• Optimize embedded pipelines for real-time audio/video processing and on-device ML execution, identifying execution bottlenecks across CPU/GPU/NPU subsystems.
• Formulate architectural blueprints and trade-off analyses to influence internal cross-functional teams (hardware, platform software, Product Management) and external vendor engineering teams.

Skills

Embedded systems

C/C++

OS internals

System architecture

Vendor prototyping

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/CE/EE

Tools

Perfetto

ftrace

Job description

Google Home's System Architecture team defines foundations across first-party and partner devices, balancing silicon capabilities, embedded OS layers, and real-time pipelines. You will lead architecture pathfinding, prototype with silicon vendors, optimize DRAM/CPU usage, and drive cross-functional collaboration for end-to-end latency and on-device ML execution.

This role involves shaping hardware-software platform strategy and working across product teams to deliver scalable, high-performance