Senior Software Engineer, Android Laptops and Tablets Display
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages.
- 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 1 year of experience with software design and architecture.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience with graphics systems (like SurfaceFlinger or HWC), or other low-level OS services.
- Experience with the Android platforms.
- Experience writing and debugging in a low-level systems languages.
- Knowledge of OS concepts such as concurrency, memory management, and Inter-Process Communication (IPC).
- Ability to take ownership of problems, explore solutions, and drive projects forward.
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 L&T (Laptops and Tablets) Display team is responsible for delivering pixels to the screen on ChromeOS and Android powered laptops and tablets, defining display hardware requirements, digging into kernel drivers, defining new Display APIs, building system-level surface composition strategies, and working in the Android and Chrome frameworks to improve the operating systems for large form factors.
We have opportunities ranging from kernel driver code to surface management for UI. Team members generally find opportunities to develop specialization in one area, building expertise in their field. You will work in a collaborative and supportive environment surrounded by motivated engineers.
The team regularly partners with teams inside and outside of Google such as UI/UX, open source communities, and silicon manufacturers.
Responsibilities
- Contribute changes to Android graphics stack (SurfaceFlinger, HWComposer).
- Work with engineers across the Android ecosystem to drive the platform forward.
- Build understanding and expertise of the composition/display/graphics field.
- Work with partners in the hardware ecosystem inside and outside of Google.
- Suggest and propose new work streams for the team.
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