Senior Embedded Architect, SoC & Real-Time Pipelines

Socket.dev; 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 and validates foundational software architecture across first-party and partner smart home devices. We manage constraints at the boundary of silicon capabilities, embedded OS layers, and real-time processing pipelines.

The Google Home team focuses on hardware, software and services for the home, researching and developing technologies to make homes more helpful.

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 C/C++.
• Experience driving technical requirements, evaluations, and prototyping with silicon and third-party software vendors.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture pathfinding, exploratory investigations, and 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 and external vendor engineering teams.

Skills

Architecture design

PoC prototyping

Vendor engagement

System profiling

C/C++

RTOS/OS internals

Performance optimization

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/CE/EE or equivalent

Master's degree or PhD preferred

Tools

Perfetto

ftrace

Job description

Google Home's System Architecture team defines and validates foundational software architecture across first-party and partner smart home devices. We manage constraints at the boundary of silicon capabilities, embedded OS layers, and real-time processing pipelines.

The Google Home team focuses on hardware, software and services for the home, researching and developing technologies to make homes more helpful.