Software Engineer - Android System UI, Laptops and Tablets

• Design, develop, and maintain core Android System UI components and framework integrations in Kotlin and Java (including Jetpack Compose) for large-screen laptop and tablet form factors.
• Build and polish desktop-class system UI surfaces such as the lockscreen (Keyguard/Bouncer), system bar, quick settings, notification tray, and multi-user/profile switching experiences delivering responsive keyboard, mouse, trackpad, and touch interactions.
• Optimize UI rendering performance, animation smoothness, startup latency, and memory footprint across system UI surfaces to meet strict system-health standards.
• Establish robust hermetic unit, integration, and automated UI tests to safeguard end-to-end user journeys and prevent regressions across releases.
• Partner closely with UX Designers, Product Managers, and Global Android System UI and Platform Engineering teams to take features from early prototyping through production launch.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience with software development in Kotlin or Java, and data structures and algorithms.
• Experience building Android UI applications, Android system UI, or Android framework components.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience developing with Android system UI (AOSP), Window Manager, multi-user/profile frameworks, or Jetpack Compose/Kotlin Coroutines/Flow.
• Experience designing desktop or large-screen UI interactions (keyboard/trackpad navigation, adaptive layouts, smooth transitions, and UI performance profiling).
• Demonstrated ability to debug complex cross-process Android system issues and ship high-quality features across distributed global teams.

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, 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.

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 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.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience with software development in Kotlin or Java, and data structures and algorithms.
• Experience building Android UI applications, Android system UI, or Android framework components.