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December 2, 2025
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Software Engineer, Embedded Systems/Firmware, Pixel Bootloader

Mountain View, CA
Full-time
Onsite
$141K/yr - $202K/yr
Entry, Mid Level
Google is a leading technology company that develops next-generation technologies impacting billions of users. The role focuses on delivering bootloader software for Pixel devices, requiring collaboration with various teams to ensure a positive Android experience for users.
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Responsibilities

  • Own and deliver bootloader and firmware features in C and Rust.
  • Participate in bringing up new Pixel devices throughout the full development cycle such as pre-Silicon emulation environments, SoC development boards, prototypes, mass production and in-market.
  • Participate in software planning, design, and implementation of software features in areas such as interconnect, boot, reset, memory, high speed IO, low speed IO, interrupt controller, and security.
  • Debug issues involving complicated multi-faceted interactions between silicon, hardware, firmware, software, and the environment.
  • Work in a variety of code bases (e.g., C, Rust, and Python).

Qualification

Required

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 2 years of experience with software development in C.
  • 2 years of experience working with embedded operating systems.

Preferred

  • Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field.
  • 2 years of experience with data structures or algorithms.
  • Experience with common debug or trace technologies (e.g., JTAG, ARM SWD, ARM CoreSight, gdb, TRACE32, etc.).
  • Experience developing embedded software in bare-metal microcontroller firmware, RTOS, Bootloaders (e.g., BIOS, uboot, UEFI, coreboot, etc.), or Linux kernel.
  • Experience with modern SoC architecture, system bring-up, debug, or trace techniques.
  • Ability to work across a range of languages and software stacks (e.g., C, Rust, Python, C++).

Benefits

  • Bonus
  • Equity
  • Benefits
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