Staff Hardware/Software Systems Architect, Silicon

Responsibilities

• Guide strategic hardware decisions through deep-dive analysis of full-system workloads and first-party software stacks.
• Shape software architecture to unlock the full potential and specialized capabilities of custom silicon.
• Partner with Google Research, Pixel, and platform software teams to engineer category-defining features and user experiences.
• Architect end-to-end solutions that optimize for power, performance, and area (PPA) targets.
• Manage complex system-level bottlenecks by advocating bold, creative architectural approaches.
• - Guide strategic hardware decisions through deep-dive analysis of full-system workloads and first-party software stacks. - Shape software architecture to unlock the full potential and specialized capabilities of custom silicon. - Partner with Google Research, Pixel, and platform software teams to engineer category-defining features and user experiences. - Architect end-to-end solutions that optimize for power, performance, and area (PPA) targets. - Manage complex system-level bottlenecks by advocating bold, creative architectural approaches.

Minimum qualifications:

Preferred qualifications:

Qualifications

• Minimum qualifications: - Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience. - 10 years of experience with Mobile/Embedded SoCs. - Experience designing system architecture from a software perspective. Preferred qualifications: - Master's degree or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or Computer Science, with an emphasis on computer architecture. - Expertise with Android architecture, Kernel, frameworks, services, etc. - Comprehensive knowledge of interactions between software and different IP blocks, general and special purpose compute units. - Understanding of computer architecture in embedded systems. - Ability to traverse across the stack from Silicon to Apps.