Connectivity Architect, Silicon Engineering

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Minimum qualifications:

• 3 years of experience in System-on-chip (SoC) network driver software or firmware design, and linux kernel driver development.
• 2 years of experience in Wi-Fi linux kernel driver, Modem SoC linux kernel driver, and SoC interface driver.
  
  

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in one or more of the following: linux network stack, network offloading hardware, cellular, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and peripherals such as USB and PCIe.
  
  

About The Job

Our computational challenges are so unique we can’t just purchase off-the-shelf hardware, we’ve got to make it ourselves. Your team designs and builds the hardware, software and networking technologies that power all of Google’s services. As a Hardware Engineer, you design and build the systems that are the heart of the world’s largest and most powerful computing infrastructure. You develop from the lowest levels of circuit design to large system design and see those systems all the way through to high volume manufacturing. Your work has the potential to shape the machinery that goes into our cutting-edge data centers affecting millions of Google users.

As the Connectivity Architect, you will work with multiple teams to help define Application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) connectivity features.

Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. Our team combines the best of Google AI, Software, and Hardware to create radically helpful experiences. We research, design, and develop new technologies and hardware to make computing faster, seamless, and more powerful. We aim to make people’s lives better through technology.

Responsibilities

• Lead and design connectivity features.
• Work with cross-functional teams to ensure architectural features are successfully deployed in the product.
• Assist hardware and software definitions by defining software interfaces for connectivity hardware IPs and defining strategy for partitioning use cases. Map hardware and software definitions to various connectivity hardware IPs.
• Define, track, and optimize for relevant system-level Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).
  
  

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