Staff Software Engineer, Pigweed
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 years of experience in software development.
- 3 years of experience with software design and architecture.
- 2 years of low-level software development experience (e.g., C/C++/Rust) and in software design principles.
Preferred qualifications:
- Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
- 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role leading project teams and setting technical direction.
- 3 years of experience working in a structured organization involving cross-functional, or cross-business projects.
- Experience with microcontrollers, platforms, or embedded systems.
- Experience with Python scripting.
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.
Pigweed is a modern open-source microcontroller platform and operating system. We help teams get to market faster with better products by providing a well tested suite of modules. Modules cover areas such as logging, remote procedure call (RPC), an interactive console, factory testing components, continuous on-hardware platform tests, unit testing, portable real-time operating system (RTOS) layer, a Rust kernel, etc. We enhance the microcontroller software world by bringing modern practices to the traditionally C-oriented embedded ecosystem. We ship widely in Pixel and Nest products, as well as in autonomous aerial drones and satellites. Come join us to build the next generation of embedded platforms.
Responsibilities
- Design and develop microcontroller platform modules (e.g. over the air (OTA), crash handling, logging, bootloaders, size analysis tooling, kernel development). Manage low-level C, C++, Rust, occasional assembly, as well as Python-level scripting and test development.
- Propose new modules and help define the areas that are most impactful for the team to create, by learning about customer needs or from past experience and new modules written in C++, Rust, Python, Java, or TypeScript.
- Provide technical leadership on projects, support client and partner teams, and facilitate alignment and clarity across teams on goals, outcomes, and timelines.
- Influence and coach a team of engineers. Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.
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