Platform Software Manager, Silicon Architecture

Google

10 - 12 years

Bengaluru

Posted: 10/07/2025

Job Description

Minimum qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
10 years of experience with software design and development for software layers found in ASIC such as boot, drivers, embedded firmware, libraries, and API for applications.
5 year of experience in people management and developing employees.
5 years of experience driving ASIC architecture decisions from a software point of view.

Preferred qualifications:

Master's degree or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or Computer Science, with an emphasis on computer architecture.
Knowledge of interaction types between hardware and software for different types of standard hardware blocks, CPU and accelerators.
Experience with Android OS and similar, with a focus on power management, debug, quality of service or drivers.

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.

As a Software Manager, you will understand software product requirements, use cases and applications, and how they relate to specific hardware blocks or sub-systems. You will represent the goal of the software team and their constraints, working at system architecture definition of hardware blocks with the hardware architects, and the implementation definition working with the Hardware Implementation team. You will define or influence their work with the goal of ensuring fulfillment of software requirements, striving for optimal software programming model and interfaces, discuss and come to an agreement on hardware/software trade-off solutions, ensure scalability to future software and applications, and backwards compatibility as much as possible. You will make decisions using a data driven approach adopting or developing a modeling platform that will help you side your requests. You will also be required to estimate the complexity of specific implementations with the intent of supporting educated estimation of staffing and schedule required by managers or planners.

Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. Our team combines the best of Google AI, Software, and Hardware to create radically helpful experiences. We research, design, and develop new technologies and hardware to make computing faster, seamless, and more powerful. We aim to make people's lives better through technology.

Responsibilities

Collaborate with company-wide stakeholders like product management, architecture, silicon architecture, silicon implementation, silicon software, and product software engineering team, to identify user experiences characteristics and how they can be mapped onto hardware in existence or in development.
Understand interactions between hardware components and drive towards the definition of architecture and block’s interactions design, providing options or trade-offs, identifying issues and driving them to resolution.
Design architecture and software interfaces that enable a software programming model that can ultimately delight our application developers, and that can let them make use of hardware accelerators seamlessly and timely.
Design and improve hardware from generation to generation based on the results of 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.