Staff Embedded Software Engineer, Pixel System Debug Architecture

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

Job summary

Google is seeking a Staff Embedded Software Engineer for Pixel System Debug Architecture in Mountain View, CA. The role focuses on end-to-end debug architecture, system observability, and privacy-first diagnostics across device and distribution modes.

You will partner with hardware, firmware, OS, security, privacy, product, and cloud teams to embed debug hooks from day one. Required: Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience, 8 years in software development, 5 years in debugging, and 3 years

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of software development experience.
• 5 years of experience with software debugging/troubleshooting.
• 5 years of experience with C, C++, or Rust.
• 3 years of experience with embedded software design and architecture.
• Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• 8 years of experience in embedded software engineering, system software architecture, or platform debug roles.
• 3 years of experience in technical leadership leading project teams and setting technical direction.
• 3 years of experience in cross-functional, matrixed organizations.
• Experience delivering system debug, tracing, or telemetry architectures for high-volume consumer hardware products.

Responsibilities

• Architect and lead the cross-functional debug and tracing strategy across all software layers, spanning low-level firmware/RTOS, host OS, connectivity stacks, and application layers.
• Design distributed tracing, crash collection, and state synchronization mechanisms.
• Define post-mortem crash dumping, watchdog management, and clean reboot/recovery flows for single-device and multi-device failure scenarios.
• Define and enforce comprehensive PII management policies, data sanitation, redaction, and compliance for debug artifacts.
• Drive requirements for automated log parsers, post-mortem analysis tools, and fleet-wide observability dashboards to accelerate RCA.

Skills

Software development

Debugging/troubleshooting

C/C++/Rust

Embedded software design

Technical leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering/CS/related field

Job description

Staff Embedded Software Engineer, Pixel System Debug Architecture

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• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software development.
• 5 years of experience with software debugging/troubleshooting.
• 5 years of experience with software development in C, C++, or Rust.

3 years of experience with embedded software design and architecture.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• 8 years of experience in embedded software engineering, system software architecture, or platform debug roles.
• 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role leading project teams and setting technical direction.
• 3 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization involving cross-functional, or cross-business projects.
• Experience delivering system debug, tracing, or telemetry architectures for high-volume consumer hardware products.

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.

In this role, you will drive the end-to-end debug architecture, system observability, and privacy-first diagnostics strategy across next-generation devices. You will serve as the technical authority for full-stack system debuggability across standalone (device-only) and distributed (device and companion phone split-compute) operating modes. You will bridge hardware, firmware, operating systems, inter-device communication, and cloud analytics to build triage pipelines, resilient reboot/recovery mechanisms, and high-fidelity trace infrastructure while defining stringent PII protection and data governance policies. You will partner closely with Silicon, Hardware, Firmware, OS, Security, Privacy, Product, and Cloud teams to ensure debug hooks, trace points, and crash resilience are designed into products from day one. 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: $207000 - $300000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits

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• Architect and lead the cross-functional debug and tracing strategy across all software layers, spanning low-level firmware/real-time operating system (RTOS), host OS (Android/Linux), connectivity stacks, and application layers.
• Design distributed tracing, crash collection, and state synchronization mechanisms.
• Define post-mortem crash dumping, watchdog managing, and clean reboot/recovery flows for single-device and multi-device failure scenarios.
• Define and enforce comprehensive PII managing policies, data sanitation, redaction, and compliance frameworks for debug artifacts collected from internal test and production devices.
• Drive requirements for automated log parsers, post-mortem analysis tools, and fleet-wide observability dashboards to accelerate root cause analysis (RCA).

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