Senior Staff Software Engineer, Audio Platform, XR

### Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Acoustics, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software development.
• 8 years of experience in audio software systems, digital signal processing (DSP), acoustics, or consumer electronics audio architecture.
• 4 years of experience in audio software systems, digital signal processing (DSP), acoustics, or consumer electronics audio architecture.

### Preferred qualifications:

• Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• Experience with C/C++ development and system-level software architecture for embedded or real-time audio systems (RTOS/Android).
• Experience in physical acoustic design and system tuning for ultra-low-power wearables or smart glasses.
• Experience designing and delivering high-performance, low-power voice activation systems (such as always-on hotwords) or spatial audio rendering pipelines.
• Ability to operate with complete autonomy, leverage excellent engineering judgment to navigate extreme ambiguity, and successfully influence senior directors and VPs on critical product decisions.

About the job

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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...