Senior Staff Software Engineer, Pixel Audio Experiences

Google; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 262,000 - 364,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Benefits

Job summary

Google is seeking a software engineer to lead the development of audio experiences for Pixel devices, spanning from embedded systems to high-level OS applications.

You will collaborate with senior leaders, product management and audio research teams to drive multi-year roadmap delivery, balancing power, latency and performance constraints to achieve high-quality audio experiences across Pixel and ecosystem devices.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of software development experience.
• 7 years of full stack development from embedded to high-level apps in C++, Java, Python, Kotlin or Go.
• 5 years with design/architecture and testing/launching software products.
• Experience with audio technologies (audio systems/features/research).

Responsibilities

• Collaborates with senior leadership, product management and research teams to define the roadmap of audio features for Pixel devices.
• Implements experiences and features across the stack from embedded to high level OS applications.
• Leads multi-year engineering efforts across sub-component teams, owning strategy, architectural improvements and program methodologies for Pixel audio quality.
• Designs architectures enabling solutions within constrained compute environments, considering power, performance, latency and UX tradeoffs.
• Holds teams accountable for Pixel Audio quality, refining the product to deliver delightful audio experiences.

Skills

Years of software development

Full stack development

Design and architecture

Audio technologies

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Master’s or PhD in Engineering/CS

Job description

In most instances, this position requires in-person interviews as part of the hiring process.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software development.
• 7 years of experience with full stack development, from embedded to high-level applications, in C++, Java, Python, Kotlin or Go.
• 5 years of experience with design and architecture; and testing/launching software products.
• Experience with audio technologies (e.g., audio systems, audio features, audio research, etc).

Preferred qualifications:

• Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• 20 years of experience delivering consumer electronics products, feature roadmaps, or audio technologies.
• Experience collaborating and aligning teams across organization and company boundaries, driving partnerships and strategies for market delivery.
• Experience delivering validation strategies, systemic improvements, and driving best practices to push audio quality to exceptional levels.
• Experience with full stack systems development, from embedded to high level OS application, including experience managing development power, latency, and performance tradeoffs.
• Specialization in Audio processing, system optimization, performance tuning and market delivery.

About The Job

Google's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. Our products need to handle information at massive scale, and extend well beyond web search. We're looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas from all areas, including information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking and data storage, security, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, UI design and mobile; the list goes on and is growing every day. As a software engineer, you will work on a specific project critical to Google’s needs with opportunities to switch teams and projects as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve. We need our engineers to be versatile, display leadership qualities and be enthusiastic to take on new problems across the full-stack as we continue to push technology forward. With your technical expertise you will manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables. You will design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance software solutions. This role is responsible for developing and driving a consolidated multi-year roadmap of audio experiences on Pixel devices, built on Pixel’s Ambient Compute platform, Android, and ecosystem devices. You will synthesize deep Ambient Compute system knowledge, Pixel power and latency constraints, and ecosystem device understanding to deliver features across software stacks from embedded to APK. You will initiate, own, and implement strategies driving quality into the Pixel audio stack, leading roadmap delivery alongside senior leadership, product management, and audio research teams while designing scalable architectural improvements. The Platforms and Devices team encompasses Google's various computing software platforms across environments (desktop, mobile, applications), as well as our first party devices and services that combine the best of Google AI, software, and hardware. Teams across this area research, design, and develop new technologies to make our user's interaction with computing faster and more seamless, building innovative experiences for our users around the world. Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. US: $262000 - $364000 (USD) + 25% bonus target + equity + benefits

Responsibilities

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• Collaborates with senior leadership, product management and research teams to define the roadmap of audio features for Pixel devices.
• Implements experiences and features working with codebases throughout the stack from embedded to high level OS application.
• Leads multi-year engineering efforts across sub-component teams while owning the strategy, architectural improvements, and program methodologies required to deliver audio quality on Pixel devices.
• Designs solution architectures that enable solutions to fit within extremely constrained compute environments, respecting power, performance, latency and user experience tradeoffs.
• Holds teams and the organization accountable for Pixel Audio quality, ensuring polish and perfecting product to create delightful audio experiences for users.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form .