Google

Software Engineering Manager for Silicon Software

Posted On

June 17, 2025

Location

Bengaluru, Karnataka

Experience Level

Freshers/Experienced

Job Type

Permanent

Apply By

July 3, 2025

Job Description

Manage a team of developers to deliver firmware, libraries, and tools for silicon validation and productization of Google custom silicon.
Develop new software, hardware, and system architecture to support future applications.
Design, development, and testing of embedded software drivers for the next generation smart devices.
Design, guide and vet systems designs within the scope of the broader area, and write product or system development code to solve ambiguous problems.
Review code developed by other engineers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).

Minimum qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent practical experience.
8 years of experience in software development in Embedded domain, data structures, algorithms, and software design.
3 years of experience in a technical leadership role; overseeing projects, with 2 years of experience in a people management, Manage a team of developers to deliver firmware, libraries, and tools for silicon validation and productization of Google custom silicon.
3 years of experience with Design, development, and testing of embedded software drivers for the next generation smart devices.

Preferred qualifications:

Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field.
Experience with interface protocols (e.g., USB, SPI, I2C, UART, UFS, PCIe), power management, system integration - Software stacks, Drivers.
Experience with ARM or other low-power SoC architectures, memory system, fabric etc.
Experience working with hardware designers/reading schematics.
Knowledge of embedded systems development, RTOS concepts, device drivers and hardware/software integration.

Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent practical experience.
8 years of experience in software development in Embedded domain, data structures, algorithms, and software design.
3 years of experience in a technical leadership role; overseeing projects, with 2 years of experience in a people management, Manage a team of developers to deliver firmware, libraries, and tools for silicon validation and productization of Google custom silicon.
3 years of experience with Design, development, and testing of embedded software drivers for the next generation smart devices.

Like Google's own ambitions, the work of a Software Engineer goes beyond just Search. Software Engineering Managers have not only the technical expertise to take on and provide technical leadership to major projects, but also manage a team of Engineers. You not only optimize your own code but make sure Engineers are able to optimize theirs. As a Software Engineering Manager you manage your project goals, contribute to product strategy and help develop your team. Teams work all across the company, in areas such as information retrieval, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking, security, data compression, user interface design; the list goes on and is growing every day. Operating with scale and speed, our exceptional software engineers are just getting started -- and as a manager, you guide the way.

With technical and leadership expertise, you manage engineers across multiple teams and locations, a large product budget and oversee the deployment of large-scale projects across multiple sites internationally.

As a Software Engineer, Firmware, Silicon, you will work on hardware and software. We are a vertically integrated team spanning from hardware through applications. Manage a team of developers to deliver firmware, libraries, and tools for silicon validation and productization of Google custom silicon.

Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. Our team combines the best of Google AI, Software, and Hardware to create radically helpful experiences. We research, design, and develop new technologies and hardware to make computing faster, seamless, and more powerful. We aim to make people's lives better through technology.

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