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Staff Software Engineer, Embedded Systems/Firmware, AI2 Platforms Hardware Health

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Compensation
$207–300K/yr
Location
Sunnyvale, CA
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

Google seeks a Staff Software Engineer for its AI2 Platforms Hardware Health group, focused on the function and reliability of its hardware ecosystem. The engineer will develop software and diagnostics for hardware health, verification, performance characterization, and reliability, and help shape hardware and software design and deployment decisions. The role supports platforms used across Google’s data centers and AI infrastructure.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

C/C++, requiredPython, requiredEmbedded Software Development, requiredMicrocontroller Development, requiredEmbedded Operating Systems, requiredResource-Constrained Development, requiredPower-Constrained Development, requiredRTOS, requiredLinux, requiredSoftware Design, requiredSoftware Architecture, requiredSystem-Level Software Development, nice to haveEmbedded Diagnostics, nice to haveHardware Validation, nice to haveQuality Assurance, nice to haveData Analysis, nice to haveSystem Reliability, nice to haveTool Development, nice to haveAutomation, nice to haveSoftware Testing, nice to haveLinux Kernel Development, nice to haveLinux Kernel Debugging, nice to haveLinux Kernel Testing, nice to have

Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent Practical Experience, required8 Years Software Development, required5 Years Embedded Operating Systems, required3 Years Software Design and Architecture, required10 Years System-Level Software Development, nice to haveEnglish Proficiency, required

Full job description

Staff Software Engineer, Embedded Systems/Firmware, AI2 Platforms Hardware Health

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XIn most instances, this position requires in-person interviews as part of the hiring process.

Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.

  • 8 years of experience in software development.

  • 5 years of experience working with embedded operating systems.

  • 3 years of experience with software design and architecture.

  • Experience with C/C++, Python, and embedded software development for microcontrollers or embedded systems.

  • Experience with software development in resource and power constrained micro-controller environments, and embedded RTOS and Linux environments.

Preferred qualifications:

  • 10 years of experience in system-level software development.

  • Experience in embedded software and diagnostics development.

  • Experience in software development for hardware validation and quality assurance.

  • Experience collecting and analyzing data to improve system reliability.

  • Experience building tools, automation, and tests to deliver systems.

  • Experience developing, debugging, and testing within the Linux kernel.

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.

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

The AI2 Platforms Hardware Health group focuses on ensuring the function and reliability of our hardware ecosystem. At Google, we explore leading-edge hardware solutions, and this team is involved in the early design and setting of product requirements. We focus on training and inference acceleration, leading-edge storage solutions, compute servers with Intel, AMD, ARM, and other processors, high-speed, low-latency networking and interfaces, and more that we can’t talk about. We are involved in every new product that is used in our data centers (DeepMind, Cloud services, Search, YouTube, etc.).

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

Learn more aboutbenefits at Google (https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/benefits/) .

Responsibilities

  • Develop tools and diagnostics in support of machine learning system health manufacturing and verification, performance characterization, and ongoing reliability.

  • Develop software that executes in thousands of systems in parallel, and develop dashboards to analyze the results.

  • Enable testing and decision-making on hardware and software design and deployment.

  • Support emerging technologies, including systems for artificial intelligence, machine learning, video transcoding, security, and image processing.

  • Design next-generation platforms powering AI to push computation limits.

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Google is a global company and, in order to facilitate efficient collaboration and communication globally, English proficiency is a requirement for all roles unless stated otherwise in the job posting.

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How this job compares

Set against the 39,673 open Software Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 11, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$207–300K/yr
  • California median$164–244K/yr6,896 salary ranges
  • US median$133–217K/yr31,689 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $254K, is 24% above the California median midpoint ($205K) — in the top quarter of Software Engineer salary ranges in California.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 8,503 open Software Engineer jobs in California and 39,673 across the US. 8% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in California
Experience
This posting asks for at least 8 years of experience — more than three in four Software Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 32,700 postings).
Education
12,375 of the 39,673 open Software Engineer jobs (31%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 11, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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