Senior Software Engineer, Embedded Systems/firmware, AI and Infrastructure

Google Google · Big Tech · Sunnyvale, CA +1

This role is for a Senior Software Engineer focused on Embedded Systems/Firmware within Google's AI and Infrastructure team. While the team works on AI infrastructure, the core responsibilities of this specific role are in low-level systems programming, testing, and software design for embedded systems, not directly building or shipping AI models or agents. The role involves writing and testing product/system development code, reviewing code, contributing to documentation, triaging issues, and participating in design reviews.

What you'd actually do

  1. Write and test product or system development code.
  2. Review code developed by other engineers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).
  3. Contribute to existing documentation or educational content and adapt content based on product/program updates and user feedback.
  4. 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.
  5. Participate in, or lead design reviews with peers and stakeholders to decide amongst available technologies.

Skills

Required

  • low level systems programming languages (e.g. C++ or C)
  • testing, maintaining, or launching software products
  • software design and architecture
  • embedded operating systems

Nice to have

  • data structures/algorithms
  • technical leadership role
  • developing accessible technologies