Staff Software Engineer, Google Home Nest

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Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience
• 10 years of experience in software development and with data structures/algorithms
  
  

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience leading distributed teams across US and Asia
• Experience in one or more of the following areas: on-device algorithms, embedded Linux, data analysis/experiments, machine learning, software platforms
• Experience in IoT and smart home platforms
• Experience with implementing compute-heavy algorithms on embedded systems
• Success launching one or multiple AI/ML-powered user-facing products
  
  

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.

At Google Nest, we leverage cutting edge machine learning, sensor algorithms, coupled with our industry-leading platforms to create delightful, helpful experiences for the smarter home. We are looking for outstanding leaders to build the software stack for the future consumer hardware ecosystem, ranging from on-device platforms, exceptional ML models and sensor algorithms, and partner APIs/SDKs. Our team has launched intelligent features for many Google Nest Devices including cameras, doorbells, speakers, wifi, and smart displays. We continue to improve these products and features and also work on products coming down the pipeline.

The Google Nest team focuses on hardware, software, and services for the home, ranging from Nest thermostats to Nest smart displays. The Google Nest team develops, designs, and develops new technologies and hardware to make users’ homes more helpful. Our mission is the helpful home: to create a home that cares for the people inside it and the world around it.

Responsibilities

• Be responsible for growing the local teams and projects portfolio.
• Design and develop the software architecture for next generation Smart Home devices, platforms, and/or intelligent applications. Work across the entire stack from kernel OS, device app, data analysis, and intelligent algorithms.
• Build evaluation datasets, metrics, and infrastructure to understand and optimize the behavior of our platform and algorithms. Support a multitude of user and partner facing features that rely on the quality and performance of these algorithms, as running on compute-constrained embedded systems and different interfaces.
• Lead communication and alignment across functions, geographies, and aligning with stakeholders on multiple priorities.
  
  

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google’s EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form .