Technical Solutions Engineer

About the Role

As part of the Health and Home Partner Engineering team, you will streamline the integration of third-party products into the Google ecosystem and Google SDKs to third-party devices. 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.

Key Responsibilities

• 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.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• 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.

Qualifications

• Collaborate with top partners, guiding them on effective implementation strategies, API usage, code best practices, and platform-specific optimization for seamless integration into the Google ecosystem.
• Provide specialized engineering support, involving in-depth knowledge of platform-specific SDKs, APIs, and developer tools.
• Advocate for developers and their needs, work with other teams at Google to ensure developers have the resources they need to succeed.
• Reach out to developers to build relationships and promote Google Health and Home products through various channels, including hosting events and speaking at conferences.
• 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.
• Accelerate partner onboarding by building custom developer tools, test suites, and high-quality technical resources.
• Work 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.