Firmware Technical Lead
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 7 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages (C/C++).
- Experience working with networking, RDMA or packet processing, and system design principles.
- Experience with embedded systems/firmware design.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience with hardware design, computer architecture or chip design.
- Experience in Technical leadership.
- Experience with SoC cycles.
- Ability to work with device level hardware and software, especially in a lab environment.
About the job
Behind everything our users see online is the architecture built by the Technical Infrastructure team to keep it running. From developing and maintaining our data centers to building the next generation of Google platforms, we make Google's product portfolio possible. We're proud to be our engineers' engineers and love voiding warranties by taking things apart so we can rebuild them. We keep our networks up and running, ensuring our users have the best and fastest experience possible.
Responsibilities
- Build firmware running on embedded processors with limited memory footprints on the System-on-a-chip (SoC).
- Design and implement multi threaded applications and device drivers running under an open source real time operating system.
- Develop tools to update and debug the firmware, enable emulation, chip bringup, and hardware debugging.
- Build Linux kernel device drivers to attach the SoCs to data center systems and associated C++ userspace drivers, tools and libraries, and write code to handle Direct Memory Access (DMA), interrupts, power management, SoC initialization, and error handling.
- Contribute to business outcomes emulation, chip bringup, and SoC deployment, and also to all layers of the data center software stack to deploy SoCs to production.
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