Silicon Engineer - Consumer Hardware and SoC Design

Silicon Engineer, Platform and Devices, University Graduate, 2026

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Electronics and Communication Engineering, a relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience with design concepts and computer hardware architecture.

Preferred qualifications:

• Internship work, work experience, or personal project experience outside the classroom in Hardware, Electrical Engineering or Mechanical Engineering.
• Experience in one or more of the following areas: SoC/ASIC Design, Design Verification, Physical Design, Design for Testability.
• Experience with Verilog/HDL or System Verilog coding.

Internship work, work experience, or personal project experience outside the classroom in Hardware, Electrical Engineering or Mechanical Engineering.Internship work, work experience, or personal project experience outside the classroom in Hardware, Electrical Engineering or Mechanical Engineering.

About the job

Google engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. As a member of an extraordinarily creative, motivated and talented team, you develop new products that are used by millions of people. We need our engineers to be versatile and passionate to take on new problems as we continue to push technology forward. If you get excited about building new things and working across discipline lines, then our team might be your next career step.

Google's Consumer Hardware Silicon division builds chips optimized for Google-branded consumer devices. Our product areas include imaging, machine learning, video, and security. We aim to build a team with talent that resonates with Google's culture of innovation and fun.

As a Silicon Engineer, you will design, develop, and deploy consumer hardware. As a member of a fast-paced multi-disciplinary team, you will use your creativity and various range of engineering experience to explore solutions to a variety of engineering problems. Additionally, you will participate in the design, analysis, and prototyping of new concepts. You will also work in a manufacturing and product oriented development environment and collaborate with vendors and outside sources in order to see parts through to manufacture.

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.

As a Silicon Engineer, you will design, develop, and deploy consumer hardware. As a member of a fast-paced multi-disciplinary team, you will use your creativity and various range of engineering experience to explore solutions to a variety of engineering problems. Additionally, you will participate in the design, analysis, and prototyping of new concepts. You will also work in a manufacturing and product oriented development environment and collaborate with vendors and outside sources in order to see parts through to manufacture.

Responsibilities

• Work with the SoC teams to develop power and performance optimized chips.
• Contribute to the design, verification, and silicon implementation of ASICs and SoCs.
• Work on design concepts around CPUs, image processing, machine learning, computer vision, security, and video.
• Collaborate with teams in automating the SoC design flows.

Experience Level

Entry Level