Firmware Engineering Manager, Modem Reliability

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Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following:
New Taipei, Banqiao District, New Taipei City, Taiwan; Zhubei, Zhubei City, Hsinchu County, Taiwan
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Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 years of experience in embedded system and devices software industry, and in technical leadership or people management.
• Experience in one or more general purpose programming languages (e.g., C/C++, Java, Python).

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience with LTE and 5G NR technologies.
• Familiarity with the modem software development and testing lifecycle.
• Understanding of 3GPP LTE/NR Layer 2/Layer 3 protocols.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to manage multiple tasks.

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.

With your technical expertise you will manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables. You will design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance software solutions.

Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. Our Devices & Services team combines the best of Google AI, Software, and Hardware to create radically helpful experiences for users. We research, design, and develop new technologies and hardware to make our user's interaction with computing faster, seamless, and more powerful. Whether finding new ways to capture and sense the world around us, advancing form factors, or improving interaction methods, the Devices & Services team is making people's lives better through technology.

Responsibilities

• Detect and diagnose 3GPP Modem protocol issues identified by the modem field testing team and customers (e.g., data performance, voice call performance, and modem services).
• Advocate comprehensive enhancements in modem software performance and quality, facilitate the implementation of modem field test cases, and engineer the automation infrastructure for testing and debugging processes.
• Advocate and collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams, including IMS, AS Layer, Layer 1, and NAS layers.
• Engage closely with global carrier account teams to ensure alignment with customer performance specifications and carrier feature rollout.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form .