Staff Software Engineer, Pixel Thermal

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software development.
• 5 years of experience with Linux Kernel, operating systems, and embedded systems.
• 2 years of experience working with embedded operating systems.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• 8 years of experience with data structures/algorithms.
• 7 years of experience with power analysis, thermal Analysis or tuning Optimization.
• 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role leading project teams and setting technical direction.
• 3 years of experience working in a matrixed organization involving cross-functional, or cross-business projects.
• Experience with Android operating system.

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.

The Pixel Device Thermal Software Team is responsible for developing thermal management software, tuning device policy, collecting thermal metrics, analyzing and profiling key Critical User Journeys. We work with cross-functional teams to create solutions to control Tskin/Tj within the goal and make hard trade-offs in creating the best user experience. Our team focuses on the SoC platform and device thermal bring up. Developing operating system thermal management software, including Tskin, Tj, userspace API and frameworks.
Establishing and improving thermal KPIs (lab and field) for key use cases. Triaging and analyzing lab and field thermal issues.
Collaborating with internal and external partner teams to improve thermal on future Hardware architectures.

The Google Pixel team focuses on designing and delivering the world's most helpful mobile experience. The team works on shaping the future of Pixel devices and services through some of the most advanced designs, techniques, products, and experiences in consumer electronics. This includes bringing together the best of Google’s artificial intelligence, software, and hardware to build global smartphones and create transformative experiences for users across the world.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement the thermal management framework across the bootloader, Linux kernel, and Android HAL.
• Integrate and debug the thermal software during new device bring-up.
• Perform root cause analysis on thermal issues by analyzing test data and system logs.
• Develop key metrics (e.g., Time-to-Throttle, skin temperature compliance) to quantify and validate thermal performance.
• Drive future direction of Thermal feature development based on thermal metrics analysis.