Senior GPU Driver & Graphics Engineer

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

Job summary

Google is seeking a software engineer for the Pixel GPU driver team in California. You will share ownership of the kernel GPU driver and user-space graphics stack, drive new features, boost performance, and assist silicon bring-up.

The role requires deep GPU and driver experience, leadership capabilities, and the ability to work across Google's platforms and devices. Join a team delivering cutting-edge graphics for billions of users.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in low level systems programming languages (e.g., C++ or C).
• 5 years of experience developing and maintaining device drivers that interface software with hardware.
• 3 years of experience with software design, architecture, and technical leadership.
• Experience with Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) and mobile GPUs.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership on projects, advising Android, Pixel, and Silicon leadership on performance and feature opportunities in graphics hardware and software.
• Influence, coach, and lead a distributed team of engineers.
• Facilitate alignment and clarity across teams on goals, outcomes, and timelines.
• Develop GPU graphics and compute technologies spanning the full GPU software and hardware stack.
• Evaluate and bring up devices, collaborating with product and engineering teams to define the role and requirements of the GPU in future product designs.

Skills

C++

C

GPU programming

Device drivers

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

Google is seeking a software engineer for the Pixel GPU driver team in California. You will share ownership of the kernel GPU driver and user-space graphics stack, drive new features, boost performance, and assist silicon bring-up.

The role requires deep GPU and driver experience, leadership capabilities, and the ability to work across Google's platforms and devices. Join a team delivering cutting-edge graphics for billions of users.