Senior Silicon Engineer, Embedded Systems

Google

5 - 7 years

Bengaluru

Posted: 09/06/2025

Job Description

Minimum qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Electronics Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
5 years of experience in systems development for features like Low power modes, QoS, Voltage/Clock scaling, debug/triage, validation and deployment into consumer electronics/embedded systems.
Experience with ARM or other low-power processor architectures with competencies in software design and software architecture.
Experience with C or C++, Operating System Kernels, Linux, Firmware and associated Device Drivers with focus on Power, Thermal or performance system features.
Experience in customer engagement (customer engineering team) with embedded systems domain, RTOS and hardware/software integration.

Preferred qualifications:

MS/PhD degree in Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
10 years of software design and development experience for typical software layers found in ASIC: boot, drivers, embedded firmware, libraries, and API for applications.
5 years of experience as a software engineer in the Silicon industry.
Experience with developing firmware driver code focused on Low Power modes or Performance features.
Experience with Android OS and equivalent with focus on power management.
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.

You will be a member of the team developing high performance and low power hardware and software to enable Google’s continuous innovations in mobile image and Artificial Intelligence (AI) processing. In this role you will develop the software platform support, firmware and drivers for the Google Tensor mobile SoC.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

Enable system features for System on a Chip (SoC) devices.
Develop and debug/triage, enable continuous integration checks and validation of embedded software drivers or firmware for the SoCs.

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.