Staff Software Engineer, USB Fuchsia Platform Drivers

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Retirement plan 401(k)

Paid time off

Sick time

Maternity leave

Baby bonding leave

Paid holidays

Job summary

Google is seeking a senior software engineer to own the Fuchsia USB subsystem, driving a high-performance stack and collaborating with kernel, product, and hardware teams. You will stabilize complex hardware-software interfaces and ship production-grade drivers for a broad ecosystem of USB devices.

This role requires deep USB knowledge, system-level debugging skills, and the ability to work across platform domains. Opportunities span prototype hardware to production environments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software development.
• 5 years of experience testing, and launching software products.
• 5 years of experience working with embedded operating systems.
• 3 years of experience with software design and architecture.
• Experience with Linux device drivers.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical design of the Fuchsia USB subsystem, driving system-level power management and data throughput optimizations.
• Leverage infrastructure labs to maximize driver reliability and throughput, using hardware-in-the-loop testing.
• Address the most complex system-level bugs at the hardware/software interface using analyzers and debuggers.
• Define best practices for driver development and mentor team members to raise the technical bar.
• Partner closely with kernel, product, and hardware teams to align hardware integration with roadmaps.

Skills

USB specifications

Linux device drivers

Embedded operating systems

Software design

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Job description

In accordance with Washington state law, we are highlighting our comprehensive benefits package, which is available to all eligible US based employees.

Benefits for this role include:

• Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance


• Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match


• Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment


• Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance


• Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks


• Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks


• Holidays: 13 paid days per year

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: San Jose, CA, USA; Mountain View, CA, USA; Seattle, WA, USA.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.


• 8 years of experience in software development.


• 5 years of experience testing, and launching software products.


• 5 years of experience working with embedded operating systems.


• 3 years of experience with software design and architecture.


• Experience with Linux device drivers.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience reading hardware spec sheets to understand hardware capabilities.


• Prior experience contributing to open source Linux USB stack.


• Prior experience with the Design Ware Controller (dwc) stack.


• Embedded development experience in Linux or other operating systems.


• Deep knowledge of USB specifications.

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 be ensuring Fuchsia integrates reliably with both prototype hardware and stable production environments. Your focus will be taking ownership of the Fuchsia USB subsystem, driving the initiative to build a performant stack that reliably serves Fuchsia developers, end-users, and our internal infrastructure labs.

You will lead the effort to resolve pain points, addressing complex bugs and performance bottlenecks to elevate our USB implementation to full Google production quality. You will require flexibility and willingness to contribute across other platform driver domains as needed.

This position demands deep technical expertise in USB specifications and a pragmatic approach to system-level debugging.You will have a proven track record of stabilizing complex hardware-software interfaces and shipping production-grade drivers.

Fuchsia is a modern, open source operating system that is simple, secure, updatable, and performant. It’s a general purpose OS, designed to power an ecosystem of hardware and software, and provides core operating system functions like system resource management, a driver framework, and software abstractions.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

Responsibilities

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• Lead the technical design of the Fuchsia USB subsystem. Drive system-level power management and data throughput optimizations, with a deep focus on complex USB-C Power Delivery (PD) negotiations and USB 3.x metrics.


• Leverage our infrastructure labs to maximize driver reliability and throughput, actively utilizing hardware-in-the-loop testing to resolve performance bottlenecks. Ensure compatibility across a vast ecosystem of first-party and third-party USB devices.


• Address the most complex system-level bugs at the hardware/software interface utilizing protocol analyzers, oscilloscopes, and hardware debuggers.


• Define best practices for driver development and hardware-software integration, and mentor team members to raise the overall technical bar.


• Partner closely with kernel, product, and hardware teams to align hardware integration efforts with overarching system requirements and product roadmaps.

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 .