Google

Firmware Engineer III

Google$138K — $198K *
Telecommunications & Hardware
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in a technical field or equivalent experience.
  • 5 years of coding experience in a general purpose programming language (e.g. C/C++).
  • Master's degree or PhD in a relevant technical field is preferred.
  • 3 years of experience with embedded Linux and device drivers is preferred.
  • Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with design, verification, and software teams to create firmware for TPUs.
  • Develop software in bare metal and embedded environments.
  • Design and create firmware and software for pre-silicon environments.
  • Implement hardware abstraction layer design methodologies for robust API development.
  • Develop device drivers for external and internal software development kits (SDKs).

Benefits

  • Comprehensive healthcare coverage.
  • Retirement savings plan with matching contributions.
  • Generous paid time off.
  • Employee wellness programs and resources.
  • Professional development and continued learning opportunities.
Full Job Description
Minimum qualifications:
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 5 years of experience in coding with a general purpose programming language (e.g. C/C ).

Preferred qualifications:
  • Master's degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 3 years of experience with embedded Linux and device drivers.
  • Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.


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

The Platform Enablement team is responsible for the development, bringup and qualification, deployment, and sustaining quality of our custom silicon. We plan and integrate hardware and software stacks and operate them on emulation, simulation and field-programmable gate array (FPGA) platforms for pre-silicon validation. We engage in ASIC modeling, prototyping, hardware/software integration, firmware development, functional bringup and performance benchmarking. We create firmware, software-based custom test cases, workloads, test generators, infrastructure, analysis tools, and debugging tools. In later phases, we are responsible for silicon bringup, validation, characterization and qualification, and sustaining programs and their quality. We help ensure our fleet runs at maximum efficiency.
The AI and Infrastructure team is redefining what's possible. We empower Google customers with breakthrough capabilities and insights by delivering AI and Infrastructure at unparalleled scale, efficiency, reliability and velocity. Our customers include Googlers, Google Cloud customers, and billions of Google users worldwide.

We're the driving force behind Google's groundbreaking innovations, empowering the development of our cutting-edge AI models, delivering unparalleled computing power to global services, and providing the essential platforms that enable developers to build the future. From software to hardware our teams are shaping the future of world-leading hyperscale computing, with key teams working on the development of our TPUs, Vertex AI for Google Cloud, Google Global Networking, Data Center operations, systems research, and much more.
Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $138000 - $198000 (USD) 15% bonus target equity benefits

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Responsibilities
  • Collaborate with design, verification, and software teams to develop firmware for TPUs.
  • Develop in bare metal and embedded environments.
  • Design and develop firmware and software using pre-silicon environments.
  • Develop hardware abstraction layer design methodologies, including the ability to design flexible and robust API's for hardware IP.
  • Device driver development for 3rd party and internal software development kits (SDKs).


About Google

Google is a multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products. These include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware. Google was founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University. The company has grown tremendously since then and has become one of the most valuable companies in the world. Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.
Learn more about Google
Size
156,500 employees
Market Cap
$1,115.4 billion
Industry
Net Income
$40.2 billion
Founded
1998
5 Year Trend
+23.3%
Revenue
$182.5 billion
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