ASIC Platform Software Architect

Google

3 - 5 years

Hyderabad

Posted: 09/06/2025

Job Description

Info Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Hyderabad, Telangana, India; Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Hyderabad, Telangana, India; Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.

Minimum qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience.
3 years of experience in software development in the area of consumer electronics or other embedded systems.
2 years of experience driving application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) architecture , OS kernel, system on a chip (SoC) architecture, power and performance analysis.

Preferred qualifications:

Master's degree or PhD in Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience.
5 years of experience in software design and development for software layers found in SoC (e.g., bootloaders, kernel, hypervisor, secure monitor, device drivers and embedded firmware).
Experience with Android and any Real-time OS.
Knowledge of interaction types between hardware and software for different types of standard hardware blocks, CPU, and accelerators.

About the job

Be 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.

The Silicon Software team has the long term charter to develop software for a variety of custom silicon being developed within Google. This includes IP for many diverse applications. We are working generations ahead of the market to enable groundbreaking features.

In this role, you will be involved in developing software across a few domains such as platform software (BSP, firmware, drivers) delivered to our customers, silicon validation software to be used in the pre-silicon, and post-silicon validation, compilers, drivers, runtime, embedded firmware and tools in the machine learning domain, security architecture and systems, system power and performance, related engineering productivity and test engineering activities.Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. Our Devices & Services team combines the best of Google AI, Software, and Hardware to create radically helpful experiences for users. We research, design, and develop new technologies and hardware to make our user's interaction with computing faster, seamless, and more powerful. Whether finding new ways to capture and sense the world around us, advancing form factors, or improving interaction methods, the Devices & Services team is making people's lives better through technology.

Responsibilities

Collaborate with stakeholders to identify user experiences characteristics and how they can be mapped onto hardware and software.
Design architecture and software interfaces that enable application developers to make use of hardware accelerators and other IP.
Understand interactions between hardware components, identify issues and bottlenecks, provide trade-off options and drive them to resolution.
Help design or improve hardware from generation to generation based on lessons learned from productization efforts, and to reduce technical debt.

About Company

Google is a multinational technology company founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin. It is best known for its search engine but also develops products and services in areas like online advertising (Google Ads), cloud computing (Google Cloud), operating systems (Android, Chrome OS), web browsers (Chrome), and consumer electronics (Pixel devices, Nest). Google is a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc., its parent company formed in 2015. It plays a major role in shaping the internet, AI, and digital innovation globally.