Senior Software Engineer, ChromeOS, Android Input, Desktop

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience working with embedded operating systems.
• 3 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 5 years of experience testing, and launching software products.
• 3 years of experience and with data structures/algorithms.
• 3 years of experience with software design and architecture.
• Experience developing accessible technologies.

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.

This team ensures the correct behavior of both external and internal input hardware devices, ensuring that OS events are correctly processed and delivered to the application/sysUI layer.
In this role, you will focus on shipping a great input experience on our devices. You will develop frameworks to make fixing issues easy and catching regressions automatically. You will have built-in and peripheral input devices that are easy to use and work well on user feedback and use it to improve our product. You will also be responsible to build platform user experience for human interface devices working closely with the peripheral partner ecosystem.ChromeOS delivers quality computing at scale to provide universal and unfettered access to information, entertainment, and tools. Our mission is to empower anyone to create and access information freely through fast, secure, simple, and intelligent computing.
The US base salary range for this full-time position is $166,000-$244,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.
Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.This team ensures the correct behavior of both external and internal input hardware devices, ensuring that OS events are correctly processed and delivered to the application/sysUI layer.
In this role, you will focus on shipping a great input experience on our devices. You will develop frameworks to make fixing issues easy and catching regressions automatically. You will have built-in and peripheral input devices that are easy to use and work well on user feedback and use it to improve our product. You will also be responsible to build platform user experience for human interface devices working closely with the peripheral partner ecosystem.
The US base salary range for this full-time position is $166,000-$244,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.
Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

• Work with cross-functional teams and engineering managers to develop OS features that enables user experience with next generation touch technologies.
• Write firmware, drivers and interfacing code in C, C++, Objective-C or Python for touch controllers and stylus.
• Create and execute plans to bring-up, debug and validate designs to achieve functional and performance goals.
• Design basic software GUI to demonstrate the feature.
• Present results to both internal and external engineering teams.