Senior Embedded Wearable Systems Engineer

Google; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 174,000 - 252,000; Full time

Job summary

Google’s Wearable Platforms team seeks a software engineer to own the wearable co‑processor software stack, from the AP to the co‑processor and sensor interfaces. You will shape power, performance, and software abstraction layers for first‑party wearable devices.

You’ll collaborate across teams on CHRE and sensor improvements, verify algorithms and telemetry pipelines, and influence future hardware architectures for efficient ambient computing.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages (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.

Responsibilities

• Develop and optimize the software platform for wearable co‑processors, including board bring‑up, AP/co‑processor communication, and on‑chip peripherals.
• Work with partner teams to improve sensors and Context Hub Runtime Environment (CHRE) frameworks.
• Build and maintain a developer‑friendly environment and abstraction layers to support other teams working on the co‑processor.
• Evaluate and prove out power, performance, and platform capabilities on new and unreleased hardware to inform next‑generation wearable experiences.
• Integrate and enhance frameworks for algorithm development, data collection, telemetry, and testing (e.g., unit, integration, hardware‑in‑the‑loop).

Skills

C++

Embedded OS

Software testing

Software architecture

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

RTOS

protobuf

RPCs

I2C

SPI

UART

Unix/Linux

Job description

Google’s Wearable Platforms team seeks a software engineer to own the wearable co‑processor software stack, from the AP to the co‑processor and sensor interfaces. You will shape power, performance, and software abstraction layers for first‑party wearable devices.

You’ll collaborate across teams on CHRE and sensor improvements, verify algorithms and telemetry pipelines, and influence future hardware architectures for efficient ambient computing.