Senior Software Engineer, Embedded Systems, XR Audio Platform
Company: Google
Location: San Jose, CA
Type: Full-time
Posted: 2026-10-09
About this role
In most instances, this position requires in-person interviews as part of the hiring process.
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 5 years of experience in low level systems programming languages (e.g., C++ or C).
- 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 1 year of experience with software design and architecture.
- 3 years of experience working with embedded operating systems.
- Experience designing and developing software for real-time operating systems.
Preferred qualifications:
- Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science, or a related technical field.
- 5 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
- 1 year of experience in a technical leadership role.
- Experience in developing software for audio systems on consumer electronics.
- Experience developing accessible technologies.
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.
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