Staff Software Engineer, Android Laptop and Tablet System Software, Platform Inputs

Responsibilities

Architect and deliver premium, desktop-class input experiences across the Android and ChromeOS ecosystems. Manage the end-to-end technical roadmap for input stacks, including hardware, firmware, kernel drivers, and framework services.

Requirements

Requires a bachelor's degree and at least 8 years of software development experience with proficiency in C/C++ or Java. Candidates must have significant experience with Linux kernel, operating systems, and performance tuning.

Skills

• Software Development
• Java
• C++
• Python
• Linux Kernel
• Operating Systems
• Performance Analysis
• Performance Optimization
• Software Architecture
• Android
• ChromeOS
• Firmware
• Distributed Systems
• Hardware Architecture
• Technical Leadership

Benefits

• Bonus
• Equity
• Health Insurance

About this role

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

* Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
* 8 years of experience in software development.
* 8 years of experience with one or more general purpose programming languages
(e.g., Java, C/C++, or Python).
* 5 years of experience with Linux Kernel, Operating Systems, Performance
Analysis, Performance Optimization, Performance Tuning, and C++ or C coding.
* 3 years of experience with software design and architecture.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

* Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related
technical field.
* 8 years of experience with software development in C/C++, and with data
structures and algorithms.
* 5 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products,
and 1 year of experience with software design and architecture.
* 5 years of experience building and developing large-scale infrastructure,
distributed systems or networks, or experience with compute technologies,
inputs, or hardware architecture.

* 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role leading project teams
and setting technical direction.

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.

Android is Google’s mobile operating system powering more than 3 billion devices
worldwide. Android is about bringing computing to everyone in the world. We
believe computing is a super power for good, enabling access to information,
economic opportunity, productivity, connectivity between friends and family and
more. We think everyone in the world should have access to the best computing
has to offer. We provide the platform for original equipment manufacturers
(OEMs) and developers to build compelling computing devices (smartphones,
tablets, TVs, wearables, etc) that run the best apps/services for everyone in
the world.

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

Learn more about benefits at Google
[https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/benefits/].

RESPONSIBILITIES:

* Architect, deliver of premium, desktop-class input experiences across
Google’s unified Android and ChromeOS computing ecosystems.
* Own end-to-end technical roadmap across the multi-layered input stack
spanning physical hardware matrices, firmware protocols (HID, HID++, USI 2.0
styluses, SPI/I2C touch controllers), Linux, Android GKI kernel-drivers,
native C++ input processing pipelines, Java framework services.
* Design, scale foundational OS capabilities including public, system APIs for
third-party peripheral, mouse button customization, next-generation keyboard
standards featuring dedicated AI hardware triggers (Super G, quick
insert-keys), cross-form-factor haptics for trackpads and styluses,
heatmap-driven palm rejection algorithms, low-latency hardware-to-OS wake
signaling.
* Be the primary technical conduit across system UI, input experience hardware
engineering, and global Tier-1 OEM for new platform bring-up.
* Advocate next-generation hardware-in-the-loop test automation, input latency
telemetry, drive operational excellence across release bug triaging and code-
ownership to deliver flagship Google devices.

About Google

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