Firmware Engineer, Modem Upper Layer, Pixel Mobile Wireless

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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; Xindian District, New Taipei City, Taiwan.

Minimum qualifications:

• Master's degree in Communications/Electrical Engineering, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

• 5 years of experience with LTE and 5G NR protocols development.

• Experience in Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP), NAS/SIM protocols.

• Experience in C/C++ and embedded RTOS.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP), LTE/NR NAS protocol standards.
• Familiarity with the modem development process.
• Ability to manage multiple changes and priorities during the development phase.
• Solid technical communication skills.

About the job

As a Firmware Engineer, you'll focus on development, integration, customization, and performance enhancement of modem features on Android devices, working closely with Pixel Software teams, original equipment manufacturers (OEM) and vendors.

You'll develop and enhance the modem protocol stack at certain modules, validate the enhancement through unit test and module test, and resolve the issues from certification, field testing, and customers.

On this team, you will not only have the opportunity to go-deep specific modem protocol stack development or expand your domain knowledge, but also propose your innovative and practical ideas to optimize the Non-access stratum (NAS) and Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) performance.

Making the world's information universally accessible and useful doesn't stop at the desktop. The Mobile team builds tools to get you the information you need no matter where you are. Android has become the world's most popular mobile ecosystem, powering billions of devices, from smartphones to tablets, watches to TVs and everything in between. Whether adding to the core Android experience, forging new markets for digital content, creating immersive and portable versions of our products or managing relationships with a global community of developers, the Mobile team is giving you Google on the go.

Responsibilities

• Develop 3GPP or proprietary NAS/SIM protocol/features and fix modem protocol issues from the Testing team, certification lab, and customers.
• Develop and enhance Modem protocol voice service, data service, system selection performance, upper layer behaviors, and SIM/STK performance.
• Work and design with the global carriers engineering team to meet customer performance and features requirements.
• Collaborate with cross-layer teams, such as Android, IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS), and Layer 1.

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