System Power Engineer, Brownout Mitigation

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Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or Computer Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
• 3 years of experience with system-level power optimization and software development (e.g., firmware or Linux kernel)
  
  

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with power measurement tools (e.g., Monsoon, digital multimeter, etc.)
• Experience with Android tools (e.g., adb, Systrace, Git, etc.)
• Experience with mobile phone hardware subsystems, including applications processor, cellular modem, graphics, multimedia, display, memory, WiFi, etc. with expertise in one or more areas
• Experience with and understanding of mobile phone workloads in one or more areas: multimedia processing, camera pipeline, render and display processing, cellular modem/WiFi processing
• System-level understanding of mobile devices, including hardware and software, and the interactions between the two
• Excellent communication and problem solving skills
  
  

About The Job

As a System Power Engineer, you will collaborate with engineers from all across Google to design and execute on power and battery life goals for the next generation of products.

In this role, you will drive end-to-end power deliverables across the entire product life cycle, including setting power goals, performing power estimates, implementing power optimizations, performing power measurements, and debugging battery drain issues.

Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. Our Devices & Services team combines the best of Google AI, Software, and Hardware to create radically helpful experiences for users. We research, design, and develop new technologies and hardware to make our user’s interaction with computing faster, seamless, and more powerful. Whether finding new ways to capture and sense the world around us, advancing form factors, or improving interaction methods, the Devices & Services team is making people’s lives better through technology.

Responsibilities

• Work with cross-functional hardware, software, and systems teams to define and develop hardware and software architectures for peak power management.
• Define, develop, and utilize tools, scripts and tests for debugging peak power events, system profiling, power measurements, model validation, and power consumption analysis.
• Propose and drive implementation of innovative peak power management features across hardware and software.
• Develop software (e.g. kernel/Android) for peak power management.
  
  

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