About the job

Google's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. Our products need to handle information at massive scale, and extend well beyond web search. We're looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas from all areas, including information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking and data storage, security, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, UI design and mobile; the list goes on and is growing every day. As a software engineer, you will work on a specific project critical to Google’s needs with opportunities to switch teams and projects as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve. We need our engineers to be versatile, display leadership qualities and be enthusiastic to take on new problems across the full-stack as we continue to push technology forward.

Responsibilities

• Design or develop Software (SW)/Firmware (FW) running in SoC for boot, security, power management, manageability and other SoC co-processors.

• Develop or review the code for boot services API, NERF/UEFI/linuxboot/ACPI.

• Review code and quality process build up for partner's code upstream. Co-work with SoC vendors, Joint Design Manufacturing (JDMs) on code quality, and test left-shift to early check on code quality.

• Build, test or release infrastructure development and maintain the release cadence, Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) release quality.

• Lead the new product initiatives/feature and coordinate across different stakeholders.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.

• 5 years of experience with software development in one or more of the programming languages (e.g., C, C++, Python, Go) or scripting languages (e.g., shell).

• 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products.

• Experience in embedded software design, system board bring-up or diagnostics.

Preferred qualifications

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field.

• 8 years of experience with software development.

• Experience with BIOS, Kernel, Firmware quality tests or modularized servers of reliability.

• Experience with developer operations, release management, integration testing, open source development or Open Compute Projects (OCP).

• Excellent programming skills in building software test infrastructure, and excellent code comprehension skills for vendor code review.