Senior Software Engineer, Embedded Systems/Firmware, Pixel

Job description

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 Google Security Architecture (GSA) is a security element in every Pixel phone's Tensor SoC. It is an independent CPU and separate from the main Application Processor, but can access the main bus of the rest of the SoC. It is responsible for securing cryptographic keys and providing services such as key derivation, key wrapping, and authentication.

The GSA is present in every phone build since the introduction of the Tensor SoC (Pixel 6 and newer) and is a critical security component for Pixel phones.