Senior Embedded Software Engineer

• Design and develop firmware/kernel features, collaborate with a team of engineers and product managers.
• Participate in bring-ups, work with partners to deliver new devices. This includes low-level device driver and Board Support Package (BSP) development.
• Evaluate and help improve firmware/device driver code and processes, focusing on scalability and maintainability.
• Collaborate with a global team of software and hardware engineers on new technology proposals and process improvements.
• Maintain quality by increasing unit and integration test coverage.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Electronics or Computer Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in development, testing and deployment of consumer electronics/embedded systems.
• 5 years of experience in developing low-level firmware, device drivers, and Board Support Package (BSPs) within open-source projects.
• Experience with embedded programming in C/C++.

Preferred qualifications:

• 10 years of experience in building consumer electronics, and with manufacturing, supply chain, and customer support processes.
• Experience with Linux development environments and Git/Gerrit.
• Experience with USB-C stacks, sensors, and other peripherals.
• Experience with ARM architecture-related BSP and device driver development.
• Knowledge of the Android stack and driver development.
• Ability to interpret hardware schematics and troubleshoot hardware issues.

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 collaborate with a team of kernel, firmware, and hardware engineers to design, implement, and improve features, processes, and overall quality. You will have the opportunity to develop firmware, device drivers, and kernel modules for a variety of ChromeOS/Andriod devices and contribute to open-source projects such as coreboot, Zephyr OS, ChromeOS, and Android.Chrome OS delivers quality computing at scale to provide universal and unfettered access to information, entertainment, and tools. Our mission is to empower anyone to create and access information freely through fast, secure, simple, and intelligent computing.

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Electronics or Computer Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in development, testing and deployment of consumer electronics/embedded systems.
• 5 years of experience in developing low-level firmware, device drivers, and Board Support Package (BSPs) within open-source projects.
• Experience with embedded programming in C/C++.