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Senior Software Engineer, Embedded Systems/Firmware, Platforms and Devices

Google • Electrical & Electronic Engineering • Streaming & OTT Platforms • Bachelor's Degree • C++ • 4 days ago

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Salary

≈ $146k – $272k per year (Estimated)

Location

In office (Mountain View)

Seniority

Senior · 5+ years exp

Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 12, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 8, 2026. Google scores B on the Alion truth index.

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Google

Google is an American technology company founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin and now the principal subsidiary of Alphabet, headquartered in Mountain View, California. It operates the world's dominant search engine and the advertising system built around it, along with YouTube, Android, Chrome, Gmail, Maps, Workspace and Google Cloud, reaching billions of users across nearly every internet-connected market. The company designs its own silicon in the Tensor Processing Unit line, develops the Gemini foundation models through Google DeepMind, and derives most of its revenue from advertising while cloud has become its fastest growing segment.

google.com • HQ: Mountain View, United States • Digital Media • Marketing Analytics & Attribution • Streaming & OTT Platforms • Consumer Internet Groups • Foundation Models • Operating Systems • Cloud Platforms (IaaS & PaaS) • Video & Photo Sharing • Advertising • Search Engines • 11-50 employees • Est. 1998

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Backed by Y Combinator, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Union Square Ventures

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.

With your technical expertise you will manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables. You will design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance software solutions.

The Platforms and Devices team encompasses Google's various computing software platforms across environments (desktop, mobile, applications), as well as our first party devices and services that combine the best of Google AI, software, and hardware. Teams across this area research, design, and develop new technologies to make our user's interaction with computing faster and more seamless, building innovative experiences for our users around the world.Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $174000 - $252000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

Write and test product or system development code.
Review code developed by other engineers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).
Contribute to existing documentation or educational content and adapt content based on product/program updates and user feedback.
Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve by analyzing the sources of issues and the impact on hardware, network, or service operations and quality.
Participate in, or lead design reviews with peers and stakeholders to decide amongst available technologies.

Qualifications

Minimum qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
5 years of experience in low level systems programming languages (e.g., C++ or C).
3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 1 year of experience with software design and architecture.
3 years of experience working with embedded operating systems.
Experience developing, debugging, or maintaining device drivers.

Preferred qualifications:

Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field.
5 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
1 year of experience in a technical leadership role.

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