Senior Software Engineer - Project Solara

Overview

Help build the next generation of computing with Project Solara, a new chip-to-cloud platform for agent-first devices. Project Solara brings together software, hardware, cloud services, and AI to enable specialized device experiences shaped around people, their agents, their tasks, and their environments.

The Applied Sciences Group (ASG) is the multidisciplinary product engineering, research, and incubation team developing Project Solara and transforming this vision into working devices and product experiences. As a Senior Software Engineer on the ASG team, you will design, implement, and integrate software across Android-based devices and embedded platform components. You will apply deep knowledge of device hardware, wireless technologies, and system protocols to deliver reliable connectivity and enable new device capabilities.

You will work across operating-system, firmware, hardware, driver, and service boundaries, with particular emphasis on technologies such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Bluetooth Low Energy, USB, audio, sensors, and related device interfaces. You will collaborate with internal engineering teams, silicon partners, original equipment manufacturers, and component vendors to bring up hardware, diagnose complex system-level issues, improve platform architecture, and move device changes from design through validation and release.

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Responsibilities

• Design, implement, optimize, debug, and maintain software across Android-based devices, embedded platform components, hardware abstraction layers, and native system services.
• Drive the design and integration of device connectivity capabilities, including Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Bluetooth Low Energy, USB, and other hardware interfaces and communication protocols.
• Collaborate with hardware, firmware, security, cloud-service, and product engineering teams to define requirements, identify dependencies, and develop technical designs for new device capabilities.
• Lead hardware and platform bring-up activities, analyze interactions across operating-system, driver, firmware, chipset, antenna, peripheral, and service layers, and drive complex issues to resolution.
• Use logs, traces, protocol analysis, telemetry, and hardware diagnostic tools to investigate connectivity, performance, power, reliability, and interoperability issues.
• Develop and improve automated verification, hardware-in-the-loop testing, diagnostic tooling, and continuous integration infrastructure for device and connectivity scenarios.