Google

Senior Staff Software Engineer, Pixel Audio Experiences

Google$262K — $364K *
Consumer Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
  • 8 years of experience in software development
  • 7 years of full stack development experience in languages like C, Java, Python, Kotlin or Go
  • 5 years in software design, architecture, and product testing/launching
  • Experience with audio technologies, including systems and research.

Responsibilities

  • Collaborates with senior leadership, product management, and research teams to define the roadmap of audio features for Pixel devices
  • Implements experiences and features working with codebases throughout the stack from embedded to high-level OS applications
  • Leads multi-year engineering efforts across sub-component teams while owning strategies and architectural improvements
  • Designs solution architectures for constrained compute environments, optimizing power, performance, latency, and user experience
  • Holds teams accountable for Pixel audio quality, ensuring products provide delightful audio experiences.

Benefits

  • Access to Google's various computing software platforms and first-party devices
  • Opportunities for professional growth and development within a leading tech company
  • Engagement with innovative technologies combining Google's AI, software, and hardware
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Minimum qualifications:
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 8 years of experience in software development.
  • 7 years of experience with full stack development, from embedded to high-level applications, in C , Java, Python, Kotlin or Go.
  • 5 years of experience with design and architecture; and testing/launching software products.
  • Experience with audio technologies (e.g., audio systems, audio features, audio research, etc).

Preferred qualifications:
  • Master's degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
  • 20 years of experience delivering consumer electronics products, feature roadmaps, or audio technologies.
  • Experience collaborating and aligning teams across organization and company boundaries, driving partnerships and strategies for market delivery.
  • Experience delivering validation strategies, systemic improvements, and driving best practices to push audio quality to exceptional levels.
  • Experience with full stack systems development, from embedded to high-level applications, including experience managing development power, latency, and performance tradeoffs.
  • Specialization in Audio processing, system optimization, performance tuning and market delivery.


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.

This role is responsible for developing and driving a consolidated multi-year roadmap of audio experiences on Pixel devices, built on Pixel's Ambient Compute platform, Android, and ecosystem devices. You will synthesize deep Ambient Compute system knowledge, Pixel power and latency constraints, and ecosystem device understanding to deliver features across software stacks from embedded to APK. You will initiate, own, and implement strategies driving quality into the Pixel audio stack, leading roadmap delivery alongside senior leadership, product management, and audio research teams while designing scalable architectural improvements.

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: $262000 - $364000 (USD) 25% bonus target equity benefits

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Responsibilities
  • Collaborates with senior leadership, product management and research teams to define the roadmap of audio features for Pixel devices.
  • Implements experiences and features working with codebases throughout the stack from embedded to high level OS application.
  • Leads multi-year engineering efforts across sub-component teams while owning the strategy, architectural improvements, and program methodologies required to deliver audio quality on Pixel devices.
  • Designs solution architectures that enable solutions to fit within extremely constrained compute environments, respecting power, performance, latency and user experience tradeoffs.
  • Holds teams and the organization accountable for Pixel Audio quality, ensuring polish and perfecting product to create delightful audio experiences for users.


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.
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