Google

Staff Software Engineer, USB Fuchsia Platform Drivers

Google$207K — $300K *
Consumer Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
  • 8 years in software development
  • 5 years testing and launching software products
  • 5 years with embedded operating systems
  • 3 years in software design and architecture
  • Experience with Linux device drivers

Responsibilities

  • Lead the technical design of the Fuchsia USB subsystem
  • Drive optimizations for power management and data throughput
  • Utilize hardware-in-the-loop testing for driver reliability
  • Address complex system-level bugs using specialized debugging tools
  • Define best practices for driver development and mentor team members

Benefits

  • Health, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance
  • 401(k) retirement plan with company match
  • 20 days of vacation per year
  • 40 hours of sick time per year, 69 for Seattle
  • 28-30 weeks of maternity leave
  • 18 weeks of baby bonding leave
  • 13 paid holidays per year
Full Job Description
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X In accordance with Washington state law, we are highlighting our comprehensive benefits package, which is available to all eligible US based employees. Benefits for this role include:
  • Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
  • Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
  • Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
  • Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance
  • Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
  • Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
  • Holidays: 13 paid days per year
Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: San Jose, CA, USA; Mountain View, CA, USA; Seattle, WA, USA.

Minimum qualifications:
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 8 years of experience in software development.
  • 5 years of experience testing, and launching software products.
  • 5 years of experience working with embedded operating systems.
  • 3 years of experience with software design and architecture.
  • Experience with Linux device drivers.

Preferred qualifications:
  • Experience reading hardware spec sheets to understand hardware capabilities.
  • Prior experience contributing to open source Linux USB stack.
  • Prior experience with the Design Ware Controller (dwc) stack.
  • Embedded development experience in Linux or other operating systems.
  • Deep knowledge of USB specifications.


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.
In this role, you will be ensuring Fuchsia integrates reliably with both prototype hardware and stable production environments. Your focus will be taking ownership of the Fuchsia USB subsystem, driving the initiative to build a performant stack that reliably serves Fuchsia developers, end-users, and our internal infrastructure labs.

You will lead the effort to resolve pain points, addressing complex bugs and performance bottlenecks to elevate our USB implementation to full Google production quality. You will require flexibility and willingness to contribute across other platform driver domains as needed.

This position demands deep technical expertise in USB specifications and a pragmatic approach to system-level debugging.You will have a proven track record of stabilizing complex hardware-software interfaces and shipping production-grade drivers.
Fuchsia is a modern, open source operating system that is simple, secure, updatable, and performant. It's a general purpose OS, designed to power an ecosystem of hardware and software, and provides core operating system functions like system resource management, a driver framework, and software abstractions.Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $207000 - $300000 (USD) 20% bonus target equity benefits

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Responsibilities
  • Lead the technical design of the Fuchsia USB subsystem. Drive system-level power management and data throughput optimizations, with a deep focus on complex USB-C Power Delivery (PD) negotiations and USB 3.x metrics.
  • Leverage our infrastructure labs to maximize driver reliability and throughput, actively utilizing hardware-in-the-loop testing to resolve performance bottlenecks. Ensure compatibility across a vast ecosystem of first-party and third-party USB devices.
  • Address the most complex system-level bugs at the hardware/software interface utilizing protocol analyzers, oscilloscopes, and hardware debuggers.
  • Define best practices for driver development and hardware-software integration, and mentor team members to raise the overall technical bar.
  • Partner closely with kernel, product, and hardware teams to align hardware integration efforts with overarching system requirements and product roadmaps.


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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