Job Description

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Bangalore, Karnataka, India; Hyderabad, Telangana, India. Minimum qualifications:

• Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or Computer Science, with emphasis on computer architecture and performance/power analysis or equivalent practical experience
• 5 years of experience in power or performance modeling or systems performance analysis
• Experience working with cross-functional teams including product management, chip architecture, hardware implementation, and embedded software teams

Preferred qualifications:

• PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or Computer Science, with emphasis on computer architecture and performance/power analysis
• Experience with Android OS
• Experience with programming languages (e.g. Python)
  
• Knowledgeable on system software components, such as Linux, drivers, and runtime
• Knowledge of the impact of software and architectural design decisions on power and thermal behavior of the system (e.g., thermal mitigation and scheduling, cross-layer policy design)
• Excellent performance analysis skills

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 Devices and Services, Silicon Software team has the long-term charter to develop software for a variety of custom silicon, including IP for many diverse applications. In this role, you will be developing software across many domains. Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. Our Devices & Services team combines the best of Google AI, Software, and Hardware to create radically helpful experiences for users. We research, design, and develop new technologies and hardware to make our user's interaction with computing faster, seamless, and more powerful. Whether finding new ways to capture and sense the world around us, advancing form factors, or improving interaction methods, the Devices & Services team is making people's lives better through technology.

Responsibilities

• Perform workload analysis, modeling and system analysis for power, and/or performance. Project, analyze, and debug pre-silicon and post-silicon application power/performance.
• Produce detailed documents for the proposed implementation.
• Produce detailed trade-off analysis for engineering reviews and product roadmap decisions.
• Drive Silicon verification across process, voltage, and temperature.
• Drive Voltage characterization and Vmin correlation of Google Silicon and provide optimized Quality of Service (QoS) settings for key use cases.

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.