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Google Hiring for Senior Software Engineer, Kernel, Chrome OS Job at Sydney Full Time
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Applicants to this role must have work authorization in Australia. This role is not eligible for work visa sponsorship.
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or relevant technical field or equivalent practical experience
- 3 years of experience coding in C/C++
- Experience in lower-level computer systems, computer architecture and kernel development
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience developing for Linux kernel, coreboot, or related open-source projects
- Experience leading teams of embedded/kernel developers
- Familiarity with hardware development, test and/or manufacturing processes
- Comfortable working across the stack from BIOS to Kernel to UI
- Comfortable working across the a range of languages and stacks (e.g., Python, Go, C/C++, Rust)
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.
As a Software Engineer on the Chrome OS Kernel team, you will collaborate with a group of software, firmware, and hardware engineers, at Google and our eco-system partner companies, to enable Chrome OS on next-generation hardware platforms.
In this role, you will lead system integration efforts in the kernel layer, ensuring product excellence and an upstream first development process. You will debug and root cause critical performance, stability and integration issues across many layers of the stack – hardware, firmware, kernel, userspace. You will design and implement solutions and engage with open source communities to land them in mainline repositories.
You will help scale the Chrome OS ecosystem by defining and implementing process improvements that enable the rapid introduction and ongoing freshness of a rapidly expanding fleet of devices.
Google is an engineering company at heart. We hire people with a broad set of technical skills who are ready to take on some of technology’s greatest challenges and make an impact on users around the world. At Google, engineers not only revolutionize search, they routinely work on scalability and storage solutions, large-scale applications and entirely new platforms for developers around the world. From Google Ads to Chrome, Android to YouTube, social to local, Google engineers are changing the world one technological achievement after another.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate closely with open-source communities and technology and eco-system partners to develop Chrome OS on next-generation hardware platforms.
- Own kernel-layer stability, performance and integration issues for families of related Chrome OS devices.
- Establish and advocate best practices to find, fix and prevent bugs in the Linux kernel related to Chrome OS platforms and features.
- Lead the design and development of new platform-layer (e.g., firmware/kernel) features, subsystems, application programming interfaces (APIs), and device drivers targeting Chrome OS devices.
- Work closely with open-source communities to upstream solutions that are beneficial for Google, our eco-system and the greater open source community (e.g., Linux kernel, coreboot, Zephyr, etc.).
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.