Software Engineer Iii, Embedded Systems/firmware, Google Home

Google Google · Big Tech · Mountain View, CA +1

Google is seeking a Software Engineer III for its Embedded Systems/Firmware team within the Google Home division. This role involves developing next-generation technologies for Google's products, focusing on massive scale and user interaction. The engineer will manage project priorities, design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance software solutions. The Devices & Services team aims to create helpful user experiences by combining Google AI, Software, and Hardware, researching and developing new technologies and hardware to improve user interaction with computing.

What you'd actually do

  1. Participate in, or lead design reviews with peers and stakeholders to decide amongst available technologies.
  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. Write product or system development code.

Skills

Required

  • low level systems programming languages (e.g., C++ or C)
  • embedded operating systems

Nice to have

  • performance
  • systems data analysis
  • visualization tools
  • debugging
  • data structures
  • algorithms
  • accessible technologies
  • code and system health, diagnosis and resolution
  • software test engineering