Software Engineer III, TV Systems

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Experience with software development in C/C++/Python/Java/Kotlin/AngularJS or embedded systems.
• Experience in the software development lifecycle, including analysis and design, APIs and development tools.
• Experience in development, debugging and testing work in the Android systems.
• Experience with Platform, or System on a chip (SoC) bringup.
• Ability to work on system level problems and solving problems that cross Hardware/Software boundaries.

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.

Google TV is redefining the TV experience to make it highly personalized, Google-smart, and content-forward to help users access the world’s media. Through recent launches like Chromecast with Google TV, we bring together the best of Google. Google TV is focused on scaling across the OEM ecosystem; working closely with third-party streaming partners plus many teams across Google (for example: Ads, Play, and YouTube); and building a business on TV platforms, OTT devices, and mobile devices. With millions of active users of our products plus being amidst the quickly evolving media and entertainment industry, there are plenty of opportunities for the team and individuals in it.

Responsibilities

• Innovate, design, implement, and test new software features for TV embedded systems (streaming sticks, panel TVs and set top boxes). 
• Build high quality Android TV, OS reference designs that provides the foundational hardware and software for TV OEMs to launch devices with quality at scale.
• Bring up new prototype hardware systems. Work with unreleased TV OS and devices to bring a high performance Google TV experience to users.
• Be an expert or acquire expertise in technologies for SoC vendors, contribute to the TV OS platform particularly in the areas of Kernel, Bootloader, security, HAL implementations and Android framework.
• Advise and influence TV partners and vendors on solutions that benefit the TV ecosystem.