Staff GPU Graphics Engineer — Driver & Kernel Leader

Google; United States; On-site; USD 207,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Bonus target 20%

Job summary

Google's Pixel Graphics GPU Software team is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to own outcomes, solve ambiguous problems, and influence cross-functional stakeholders. This role requires deep expertise in GPUs and device drivers, with opportunities to influence silicon and software across Pixel products.

As part of the Pixel GPU driver team, you will work on kernel and user-space driver stacks, drive performance improvements, bring silicon up, and shape future requirements for both software and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years of experience in low level systems programming languages (C/C++).
• 5+ years 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++

Driver development

GPU programming

Technical leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Rust

Job description

Google's Pixel Graphics GPU Software team is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to own outcomes, solve ambiguous problems, and influence cross-functional stakeholders. This role requires deep expertise in GPUs and device drivers, with opportunities to influence silicon and software across Pixel products.

As part of the Pixel GPU driver team, you will work on kernel and user-space driver stacks, drive performance improvements, bring silicon up, and shape future requirements for both software and