ChromeOS Platform Engineer

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS: • Direct ChromeOS / Chromium OS experience (source tree, board/overlay structure, public issue trackerconventions).• Prior experience leading a distributed, follow-the-sun delivery team.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: • Own root cause and fix authorship for P0/P1 and other escalated ChromeOS platform defects — kernel, drivers, firmware, and peripheral/hardware integration.• Sign off release candidates against the agreed blocking criteria; target is 98% on-time RC sign-off.• Own escalation for anything the Bug Triage & Diagnostics or Release & Sustaining engineers cannot close alone— the final technical decision-maker in the pod.• Direct lab execution and hardware validation: physical device benches, flashing, peripheral compatibility, and multi-day stability runs.• Independently verify any AI-assisted triage output that reaches platform-level severity — confirm the classifiers component assignment where relevant, and never treat an automatically drafted root-cause hypothesis as final without checking it against the cited evidence.• Serve as the onsite technical point of contact for the client during core US hours — design reviews, escalationcalls, and decisions that need deep architectural context.• Mentor and direct the nearshore engineers on complex, cross-cutting cases.• Participate in the daily triage stand-up, weekly release-readiness review, and quarterly efficiency verification.