Senior Embedded Systems Engineer - XR Audio Platform

Google; Town of Montana (WI); On-site; USD 174,000 - 252,000; Full time

Job summary

Google's XR Audio Platform team seeks a Senior Software Engineer to advance embedded systems for next‑gen audio devices. You will design, implement, and test software that runs close to the hardware, ensuring real‑time performance across sensors and DSP pipelines.

This mid‑level role emphasizes hands‑on coding in C/C++ and RTOS development, code reviews, and architecture collaboration to deliver high‑quality audio experiences on consumer electronics.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in low level systems programming languages (e.g., C++ or C).
• 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 1 year of experience with software design and architecture.
• 3 years of experience working with embedded operating systems.
• Experience designing and developing software for real-time operating systems.

Responsibilities

• Write and test product or system development code.
• Review code developed by other engineers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).
• Contribute to existing documentation or educational content and adapt content based on product/program updates and user feedback.
• Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve by analyzing the sources of issues and the impact on hardware, network, or service operations and quality.
• Participate in, or lead design reviews with peers and stakeholders to decide amongst available technologies.

Skills

C/C++

RTOS development

Embedded systems

Software testing & architecture

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Job description

Google's XR Audio Platform team seeks a Senior Software Engineer to advance embedded systems for next‑gen audio devices. You will design, implement, and test software that runs close to the hardware, ensuring real‑time performance across sensors and DSP pipelines.

This mid‑level role emphasizes hands‑on coding in C/C++ and RTOS development, code reviews, and architecture collaboration to deliver high‑quality audio experiences on consumer electronics.