Description

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience working with embedded operating systems.
• 2 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages, or 1 year of experience with an advanced degree.
• Experience with cloud computing, backend, and distributed systems.
• Experience in Machine Learning Architecture and Infrastructure.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with custom SoCs, ASICs, or data center hardware systems, including boot flows, board/system bring-up, device drivers, and RTOS or bare-metal firmware design.
• Experience building system-level utilities and host-to-firmware communication mechanisms (e.g., mailboxes, shared memory, ring buffers, doorbell interrupts) to bridge disparate software or hardware components.
• Experience designing recovery strategies, fault-tolerant logic, and building monitoring frameworks or automated troubleshooting tools for mission-critical environments.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and a ability to work collaboratively across hardware, firmware, and software teams to define interfaces, debug issues, and deliver production-quality platforms.

About the jobGoogle'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 manage information at a 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, artificial intelligence, 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. The AI and Infrastructure team is redefining what's possible. We empower Google customers with breakthrough capabilities and insights by delivering AI and Infrastructure at unparalleled scale, efficiency, reliability and velocity. Our customers include Googlers, Google Cloud customers, and billions of Google users worldwide.

We're behind Google's groundbreaking innovations, empowering the development of AI models, delivering unparalleled computing power to global services, and providing the essential platforms that enable developers to build the future. From software to hardware our teams are shaping the future of world-leading hyperscale computing, with key teams working on the development of our TPUs, Vertex AI for Google Cloud, Google Global Networking, Data Center operations, systems research, and much more.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $174,000-$252,000 bonus equity benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement both low-level firmware for custom hardware (compute, accelerators, infrastructure) and system-level controller software for runtime resource management.
• Develop low-level hardware interfaces (memory-mapped registers, interrupts, DMA, shared memory) and build reliable software services and middleware to bridge high-level applications with foundational platform elements using standard communication protocols.
• Build and optimize services for real-time system tracking, health diagnostics, watchdogs, and performance telemetry across both firmware and controller levels.
• Develop automated logic and maintain features for error handling, fault tolerance, reset and recovery processes, and firmware updates to ensure high-availability across the stack.
• Collaborate with hardware, validation, and system software teams to define host-firmware-hardware interfaces, support bring-up and debugging, maintain clear internal API documentation, and drive architecture and design reviews.
  

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Requisition #: 104529980922176198

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