Senior Software Developer, Embedded Systems/firmware, Xr

Google Google · Big Tech · San Jose, CA +4

Senior Software Developer role focused on embedded systems and firmware for XR devices within Google's Platforms and Devices team. Responsibilities include writing and testing code, participating in design reviews, code reviews, contributing to documentation, and debugging system issues. Requires strong C++ experience, embedded OS knowledge, and experience in imaging-related domains like image processing or computer vision.

What you'd actually do

  1. Write and test product or system development code.
  2. Participate in, or lead design reviews with peers and stakeholders to decide amongst available technologies.
  3. Review code developed by other developers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).
  4. Contribute to existing documentation or educational content and adapt content based on product/program updates and user feedback.
  5. Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve by analyzing the sources of issues and the impact on hardware, network, or service operations and quality.

Skills

Required

  • C++
  • embedded operating systems
  • software design
  • software architecture
  • software testing
  • software maintenance
  • software launching
  • image processing
  • computer vision
  • computational photography

Nice to have

  • Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science
  • data structures
  • algorithms
  • technical leadership
  • image processing pipelines design
  • image processing pipelines implementation

What the JD emphasized

  • 5 years of software development experience in C++
  • 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products
  • 3 years of experience working with embedded operating systems
  • Experience in imaging-related domain such as image processing, computer vision, or computational photography