Senior Embedded Firmware & Accelerator Systems Engineer

Google; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 207,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Google is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Emerging Accelerator System team. You will influence low-level software and hardware interaction, contributing to accelerator roadmap and cross-functional projects across Google AI and infrastructure groups.

The role emphasizes leadership, complex debugging, and delivering scalable, secure accelerator software and firmware within a hyperscale data-center context.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of software development experience.
• 5 years of testing and launching software products.
• 5 years of working with embedded operating systems.
• 3 years of software design and architecture experience.
• Experience with C, C++, operating systems, and computer architecture.

Responsibilities

• On-board emerging co-accelerators into Google's ML accelerator families.
• Collaborate with internal teams to design and implement system software features.
• Design and develop tests, tools, telemetry, and dashboards for insights.
• Analyze, debug, and resolve complex system-level challenges.
• Provide technical leadership to drive development plans across teams.

Skills

Software development experience

Testing and launch

Embedded operating systems

Software design

C/C++

Operating systems architecture

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Job description

Google is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Emerging Accelerator System team. You will influence low-level software and hardware interaction, contributing to accelerator roadmap and cross-functional projects across Google AI and infrastructure groups.

The role emphasizes leadership, complex debugging, and delivering scalable, secure accelerator software and firmware within a hyperscale data-center context.