Senior Software Engineer, System Acceleration, Silicon
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Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: New Taipei, Banqiao District, New Taipei City, Taiwan; Zhubei, Zhubei City, Hsinchu County, Taiwan.Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 5 years of experience with software development in C or C++.
- Experience in software optimization for performance and power on embedded systems or SoCs.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience in data structures and algorithms.
- Experience in optimizing high-throughput computational workloads through hardware-software co-design.
- Familiarity with GPU programming (e.g., OpenCL, Vulkan Compute) or DSP-specific optimization.
- Understanding of computer architecture, including memory hierarchies and pipeline designs.
- Proficiency in low-level programming and debugging for at least one major processor architecture (e.g., ARM, x86, DSP).
- Knowledge of operating system internals and their impact on system performance.
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 manage information at a 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. 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
- Develop and optimize software solutions for Google SoCs across various processing units (e.g., CPU, GPU, DSP), ensuring peak performance and power efficiency.
- Design and implement highly optimized software components using low-level programming for various hardware architectures.
- Leverage hardware acceleration and parallel processing features to optimize compute-intensive workloads and algorithms.
- Conduct end-to-end workload performance analysis and identify bottlenecks across the hardware/software stack to drive continuous efficiency improvements.
- Contribute to the architectural design of future Google SoCs by providing software optimization expertise to shape hardware/software integration.
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