Senior Staff Software Engineer, Pixel Audio Experiences

About the role

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software development.
• 7 years of experience with full stack development, from embedded to

high-level applications, in C++, Java, Python, Kotlin or Go.

• 5 years of experience with design and architecture; and testing/launching

software products.

• Experience with audio technologies (e.g., audio systems, audio features,

audio research, etc).

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related

technical field.

• 20 years of experience delivering consumer electronics products, feature

roadmaps, or audio technologies.

• Experience collaborating and aligning teams across organization and company

boundaries, driving partnerships and strategies for market delivery.

• Experience delivering validation strategies, systemic improvements, and

driving best practices to push audio quality to exceptional levels.

• Experience with full stack systems development, from embedded to high-level

applications, including experience managing development power, latency, and

performance tradeoffs.

• Specialization in Audio processing, system optimization, performance tuning

and market delivery.

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.

This role is responsible for developing and driving a consolidated multi-year

roadmap of audio experiences on Pixel devices, built on Pixel’s Ambient Compute

platform, Android, and ecosystem devices. You will synthesize deep Ambient

Compute system knowledge, Pixel power and latency constraints, and ecosystem

device understanding to deliver features across software stacks from embedded to

APK. You will initiate, own, and implement strategies driving quality into the

Pixel audio stack, leading roadmap delivery alongside senior leadership, product

management, and audio research teams while designing scalable architectural

improvements.

The Platforms and Devices team encompasses Google's various computing software

platforms across environments (desktop, mobile, applications), as well as our

first party devices and services that combine the best of Google AI, software,

and hardware. Teams across this area research, design, and develop new

technologies to make our user's interaction with computing faster and more

seamless, building innovative experiences for our users around the world.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills,

experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $262000 - $364000 (USD) + 25% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google

[https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/benefits/].

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Collaborates with senior leadership, product management and research teams to

define the roadmap of audio features for Pixel devices.

• Implements experiences and features working with codebases throughout the

stack from embedded to high level OS application.

• Leads multi-year engineering efforts across sub-component teams while owning

the strategy, architectural improvements, and program methodologies required

to deliver audio quality on Pixel devices.

• Designs solution architectures that enable solutions to fit within extremely

constrained compute environments, respecting power, performance, latency and

user experience tradeoffs.

• Holds teams and the organization accountable for Pixel Audio quality,

ensuring polish and perfecting product to create delightful audio experiences

for users.