Technical Solutions Engineer, Google Home, Health and Home Partner Engineering

As a Health and Home Partner Engineering team, you will streamline the integration of third-party products into the Google ecosystem as well as Google SDKs to third-party devices. Your core engineering responsibilities include collaborating with top partners, guiding them on effective implementation strategies, API usage, code best practices, and platform-specific optimization for a seamless integration into the Google ecosystem. You will provide specialized engineering support to ensure the optimal functioning of third-party products within Google's Health and Home platforms, involving in-depth knowledge of platform-specific SDKs, APIs, and developer tools. You will advocate for developers and their needs, work with other teams at Google to ensure that developers have the resources they need to succeed. You will reach out to developers to build relationships and promote Google Health and Home products and you will do this through a variety of channels, including hosting events, speaking at conferences, and more.

In this role, you will serve as a key technical catalyst and strategic liaison, empowering global partners to successfully integrate their hardware and services with the Google Home Platform. You will combine application-level development expertise with deep systems engineering knowledge, guide partners through complex designs and lead critical initiatives to port and optimize Google software modules and core libraries onto third-party devices and chipsets. You will accelerate partner onboarding by building custom developer tools, test suites, and high-quality technical resources, working at the intersection of hardware and software, collaborate closely with Google’s Core Engineering teams to advocate for partner feedback, troubleshoot system-level bottlenecks, and drive bug resolution.
The Google Home team focuses on hardware, software and services offerings for the home, ranging from thermostats to smart displays. The Home team researches, designs, and develops new technologies and hardware to make users’ homes more helpful. Our mission is the helpful home: to create a home that cares for the people inside it and the world around it.Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $130000 - $187000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google.

• Understand partner use cases and offer insights and recommendations on solution design, development, tooling and integration.
• Build samples, codelabs and documentation to support partners integrations with Google Home devices or platforms.
• Partner closely with the Software Engineering team to communicate technical feedback from partners, resolve bugs or integration problems, and handle escalations of technical issues from Technical Account Managers.
• Speak at developer events and partner summits.
• Travel to meet with current or new partners to provide face-to-face support and troubleshooting, up to 20% as required.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or other technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 2 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages (e.g. Java, Kotlin, Python, C/C++).

Preferred qualifications:

• 1 year of experience in technical troubleshooting of compute or networking systems.
• 1 year of experience with one of the following: a general coding language (e.g. Python, Java, etc.).
• 1 year of experience in systems engineering (e.g. systems integration, systems testing).
• 1 year of experience with interactions between hardware and software at the system level.
• Experience launching IoT and smart home platforms, as well as experience working with suppliers, clients or partners on debugging and troubleshooting technical issues.
• Experience working with SoC partners to bring up devices and assure platform quality.