Senior Software Engineer, Fuchsia Graphics

1 Month ago • 5-8 Years • Graphics Engineer

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Job Description

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Fuchsia Graphics team, you will be responsible for developing the whole graphics stack and supporting hardware devices that accelerate graphics and compute workloads for Fuchsia. This includes adding features to the Fuchsia compositor and bringup of new GPU (and possibly NPU/ML) hardware, debugging, and maintaining existing drivers. You will also help shape APIs used by future third-party driver authors, and influence all layers of Fuchsia's graphics stack.
Must have:
  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages, and with data structures/algorithms.
  • 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 graphics development in C++.
  • 3 years of experience in computing infrastructure, networking, operating systems, or hardware.
Good to have:
  • Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field.
  • 1 year of experience in a technical leadership role.
  • Experience developing accessible technologies.
  • Experience integrating GPU drivers with the rest of the operating system, such as kernel drivers or window-system integration.
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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, and with data structures/algorithms.
  • 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 graphics development in C++.
  • 3 years of experience in computing infrastructure, networking, operating systems, or hardware.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field.
  • 1 year of experience in a technical leadership role.
  • Experience developing accessible technologies.
  • Experience integrating GPU drivers with the rest of the operating system, such as kernel drivers or window-system integration.

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 Fuchsia Graphics team develops the Fuchsia compositor, display drivers, GPU drivers, APIs, libraries, and tools that enable accelerated graphics and compute using Vulkan on devices running Fuchsia.

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Fuchsia Graphics team, you will be responsible for developing the whole graphics stack and supporting hardware devices that accelerate graphics and compute workloads for Fuchsia. This includes adding features to the Fuchsia compositor and bringup of new GPU (and possibly NPU/ML) hardware, debugging, and maintaining existing drivers. You will also help shape APIs used by future third-party driver authors, and influence all layers of Fuchsia's graphics stack.

Fuchsia is a modern, open source operating system that is simple, secure, updatable, and performant. It’s a general purpose OS, designed to power a diverse ecosystem of hardware and software, and provides core operating system functions like system resource management, a driver framework, and software abstractions.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $161,000-$239,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about .

Responsibilities

  • Lead and contribute to high-impact projects. Ensure alignment and clarity across teams on goals, outcomes, and timelines.
  • Build and maintain graphics stack for Fuchsia, including Vulkan support for runtimes such as Android.
  • Bring up new hardware, wrangling vendor codebases and authoring new driver code, and design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance software solutions.
  • Work with open source to upstream Fuchsia support, merge current updates, and collaborate with UI, Starnix, infrastructure, and tool chain teams.
  • Design Fuchsia's graphics APIs and influence Fuchsia's Driver ecosystem.
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$161.0K - $239.0K/yr (Outscal est.)
$200.0K/yr avg.
San Francisco, California, United States

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