Senior Software Engineer, Device Architecture, Google Home

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture pathfinding, exploratory investigations, and proof-of-concept (PoC) software implementations to evaluate features and silicon architectures.
• Drive technical engagements and prototyping sprints with external SoC vendors and business partners, evaluating vendor reference software and steering roadmap alignments.
• Profile, diagnose, and optimize system-level resource utilization—specifically targeting DRAM/Flash footprint reduction, CPU load optimization, and end-to-end latency.
• Optimize embedded pipelines for real-time audio/video processing and on-device ML execution, identifying execution bottlenecks across CPU/GPU/NPU subsystems.
• Formulate architectural blueprints and trade-off analyses to influence internal cross-functional teams (hardware, platform software, Product Management) and external vendor engineering teams.
• - Lead architecture pathfinding, exploratory investigations, and proof-of-concept (PoC) software implementations to evaluate features and silicon architectures. - Drive technical engagements and prototyping sprints with external SoC vendors and business partners, evaluating vendor reference software and steering roadmap alignments. - Profile, diagnose, and optimize system-level resource utilization—specifically targeting DRAM/Flash footprint reduction, CPU load optimization, and end-to-end latency. - Optimize embedded pipelines for real-time audio/video processing and on-device ML execution, identifying execution bottlenecks across CPU/GPU/NPU subsystems. - Formulate architectural blueprints and trade-off analyses to influence internal cross-functional teams (hardware, platform software, Product Management) and external vendor engineering teams.

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Preferred qualifications:

Qualifications

• Minimum qualifications: - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent practical experience. - 5 years of experience in embedded systems, OS internals, or system architecture. - 5 years of experience in embedded systems, OS internals, SoC architecture, Linux or RTOS subsystems, device drivers, board bring-up, and low-level system services. - 5 years of experience in C/C++. - Experience driving technical requirements, evaluations, and prototyping with silicon and third-party software vendors. Preferred qualifications: Master’s Degree or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Electrical Engineering. - 5 years of experience with data structures and algorithms. - Design experience with consumer hardware SoC architectures (MCU/CPU/DSP/NPU coordination). - Proficiency in system profiling and tracing tools (e.g., Perfetto, ftrace) to analyze and resolve complex performance bottlenecks.