Senior Software Engineer – AI/XR Systems (Hybrid)

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid Time Off: 20 days per year (vac)

Sick Time: 40 hours/year (Seattle 69)

Maternity Leave: 28-30 weeks

Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks

Holidays: 13 paid days

Job summary

Google is seeking a software engineer to help build next-generation technologies across platforms and devices. The role emphasizes low-level systems programming, embedded operating systems, and performance analysis, with opportunities to contribute to AI, XR, and large-scale distributed systems.

You will write and test code, review peers’ work, and participate in design reviews while collaborating across teams.

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 with performance analysis, system profiling, and identifying software bottlenecks.

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++

Embedded systems

Performance analysis

Software testing

Software design & architecture

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience

Job description

Google is seeking a software engineer to help build next-generation technologies across platforms and devices. The role emphasizes low-level systems programming, embedded operating systems, and performance analysis, with opportunities to contribute to AI, XR, and large-scale distributed systems.

You will write and test code, review peers’ work, and participate in design reviews while collaborating across teams.