Senior Connectivity Software Developer, Embedded Systems/Firmware, XR

This posting is for a new vacancy. Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: **San Jose, CA, USA; Waterloo, ON, Canada**.### **Minimum qualifications:** * Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience. * 5 years of experience with software development in C/C\+\+, Firmware, Connectivity, Embedded Systems. * 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 1 year of experience with software design and architecture. * 3 years of experience with embedded development. * Experience with Android platform or Microcontroller unit (MCU) software development. ### **Preferred qualifications:** * Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field. * 1 year of experience in a technical leadership role. * Experience in low\-level embedded systems using application processors or microcontrollers. * Experience with 802\.11 and BT/BLE device drivers and host interfaces (PCIe, SDIO, UART). * Proficient in using tools such as Wireshark, logic analyzers, and kernel tracing to resolve deep\-seated issues in the driver, firmware, or hardware interface. * Ability to debug hardware using logic analyzers, oscilloscopes, etc. **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 an