Senior GPU Driver & Graphics Systems Engineer

Socket.dev; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 207,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Google's Pixel GPU driver team seeks an experienced software engineer to own the kernel GPU driver and the user-space graphics driver stack, delivering performance improvements and silicon bring-up.

You will lead a distributed team, influence Android, Pixel, and Silicon leadership on graphics opportunities, and contribute to future product designs across software and hardware. This is a high-impact role at scale.

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 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++

Low-level systems programming

Device drivers

Software architecture

GPU programming

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree

Masters or PhD preferred

Job description

Google's Pixel GPU driver team seeks an experienced software engineer to own the kernel GPU driver and the user-space graphics driver stack, delivering performance improvements and silicon bring-up.

You will lead a distributed team, influence Android, Pixel, and Silicon leadership on graphics opportunities, and contribute to future product designs across software and hardware. This is a high-impact role at scale.