Software Engineer, PhD, Static Program Analysis

Job description

info_outline 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. As a key member of a small and versatile team, you design, test, deploy and maintain software solutions.

Android is the most popular computing platform in the world with 2.5B+ users, approximately 4 billion apps across 2M developers.In the Mobile Threat Analysis Platform team (MTAP), our mission is to keep Android app users safe from mobile malware and abuse. As a software engineer in the team, you will work on building systems and infrastructure to protect Android users from security and privacy threats.

• Design and build automated static program analysis frameworks at Google scale
• Design and build secure and helpful code exploration based reverse engineering tools
• Research and propose new ideas to detect trending malware and abusive apps using static analysis