Senior Embedded Software Architect, Silicon

Company: Google Inc.
Location: Mountain View
Posted on: May 24, 2025

Job Description:

Senior Embedded Software Architect, Silicon

• link Copy linkLevelMidExperience driving progress, solving problems, and mentoring more junior team members; deeper expertise and applied knowledge within relevant area.Apply
  • link Copy linkinfo_outlineinfo_outline X Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: San Diego, CA, USA; Mountain View, CA, USA.Minimum qualifications
    • Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
    • 5 years of experience with computer architecture concepts, including microarchitecture, cache hierarchy, pipelining, and memory subsystems.
    • 5 years of software development experience in consumer electronics or embedded systems.
    • Experience with processor core architectures (e.g., ARM, x86, RISC-V) and Internet Protocols (IPs) used in System on a Chip (SoC) designs.
    • Experience with C/C++.Preferred qualifications
      • Master's degree or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or Computer Science.
      • 8 years of experience in software design and development for application-specific integrated circuits (ASIC), including boot, drivers, embedded firmware, libraries, and APIs.
      • 5 years of experience in driving ASIC architecture decisions from a software perspective.
      • Experience with hardware-software interaction for standard hardware blocks, CPUs, and accelerators.
      • Experience with interface protocols (e.g., USB, SPI, I2C, UART, UFS, PCIe).
      • Experience with Android OS.About the jobBe part of a team that pushes boundaries, developing custom silicon solutions that power the future of Google's direct-to-consumer products. You'll contribute to the innovation behind products loved by millions worldwide. Your expertise will shape the next generation of hardware experiences, delivering unparalleled performance, efficiency, and integration.In this role, you will understand software product requirements, use cases, and applications, and how they relate to specific hardware blocks or sub-systems. You will represent the vision of the software team, their requirements, and constraints, working at the system architecture level with Hardware Architects, and defining implementation details with the Hardware Implementation team. You will influence their work to ensure software requirements are met, optimize software programming models and interfaces, discuss hardware/software trade-offs, ensure scalability for future software and applications, and maintain backwards compatibility as much as possible. You will adopt or develop modeling platforms to support data-driven decision making and estimate implementation efforts to support staffing and scheduling planning.Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. Our team combines AI, Software, and Hardware to create innovative, helpful experiences. We research, design, and develop new technologies and hardware to enhance computing speed, seamlessness, and power. We aim to improve people's lives through technology. The US base salary range for this full-time position is $156,000-$229,000 plus bonus, equity, and benefits. Salary ranges are role-, level-, and location-dependent. Your recruiter can share specific details during the hiring process.Responsibilities
        • Collaborate with stakeholders like product management, silicon architecture, silicon implementation, and software engineering to identify user experience characteristics and map them onto hardware.
        • Understand interactions between hardware components, define architecture and block interactions, provide options/trade-offs, and drive issue resolution.
        • Design architecture and software interfaces that enable a software programming model for application developers, including hardware accelerators.
        • Design hardware that is easy to debug, power-controlled, thermally managed, and resilient to improper programming.
        • Develop a software architecture modeling platform to explicitly model feature requests and support their hardware integration using a data-driven approach.Google is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, committed to diversity and inclusion. We provide equal employment opportunities regardless of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, or related conditions. See our policies for more details. English proficiency is required for all roles to facilitate global collaboration. We do not accept agency resumes and are not responsible for fees related to unsolicited resumes.
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