ASIC Platform Software Architect, Silicon

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 5 years of experience in software development in the area of consumer electronics or other embedded systems.
  
• 3 years of experience driving ASIC architecture decisions from a software point of view.
  
• Experience with Linux kernel, bootloaders, SoC, low-power management frameworks, or performance analysis.
  

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD in Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
  
• 10 years of experience in software design and development for software layers found in ASIC (e.g., boot, drivers, embedded firmware, libraries, and API for applications).
  
• Experience with Android OS or similar in 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 diverse 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 the ASIC Platform Software Architect, you will understand software product requirements, use cases and applications, and how they relate to specific hardware blocks or sub-systems. In this role, you will represent the direction of the software team, their asking, and their constraints. You will work on system architecture definition of hardware blocks with hardware architects, and on implementation definition working with the hardware implementation team. In addition, you will define and/or influence their work with the goal of ensuring fulfillment of software requirements, and come to an agreement on hardware/software trade off solutions. You will strive for optimal software programming models and interfaces, ensure scalability to future software and applications, and backwards compatibility as much as possible.

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 experience characteristics and how they can be mapped onto hardware and software.
• Design architecture and software interfaces that enables 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.