ASIC Platform Software Architect, Silicon
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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 equivalent practical experience.
- 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
Our computational challenges are so big, complex and unique we can't just purchase off-the-shelf hardware, we've got to make it ourselves. Your team designs and builds the hardware, software and networking technologies that power all of Google's services. As a Hardware Engineer, you design and build the systems that are the heart of the world's largest and most powerful computing infrastructure. You develop from the lowest levels of circuit design to large system design and see those systems all the way through to high volume manufacturing. Your work has the potential to shape the machinery that goes into our cutting-edge data centers affecting millions of Google users.
With your technical expertise, you lead projects in multiple areas of expertise (i.e., engineering domains or systems) within a data center facility, including construction and equipment installation/troubleshooting/debugging with vendors.
As the ASIC Platform Software Architect, you'll 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 vision of the software team, their asking, and their constraints. You'll 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 and/or improve hardware from generation to generation based on lessons learned from productization efforts, and to reduce technical debt.
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