Software Engineer II, Wear Core Platform

Location: London, UK

Overview

Early experience completing work as directed, collaborating with teammates, and developing knowledge of relevant concepts and processes.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to exciting new features.
• Work with the other teams in Google’s watch software ecosystem.
• Improve the quality and functionality of Wear OS by fixing bugs found during development, user trials and fields.
• Work cross-functionally with other Google teams to enable Google services and experiences on watches.
• Build accompanying tools, tests, utilities and telemetry.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 1 year of experience with Android application development.

Preferred qualifications

• 1 year of experience with data structures or algorithms.
• Experience building full-stack Android applications, ranging from building user interfaces to low-level Android libraries.
• Experience with Android or other mobile platforms.
• Experience with Android framework development.
• Experience with microcontroller or embedded systems architectures.

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.

About the job (Continued)

The Core Platform team focuses on the key elements of the Wear OS operating system, including operating system foundations and services specific to the devices and services ecosystem. We have several exciting projects planned for the coming quarters, including features to enable more comprehensive and seamless experiences with Gemini, helping to expand watches implementation of Bluetooth protocols and restructuring the core operating system to be more performant, power efficient and reliable. The Platforms and Devices team encompasses Google's various computing software platforms across environments (desktop, mobile, applications), as well as our first party devices and services that combine the best of Google AI, software, and hardware. Teams across this area research, design, and develop new technologies to make our user's interaction with computing faster and more seamless, building innovative experiences for our users around the world.

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