Google Silicon Engineer 2026 | University Graduate | Bengaluru — Apply Now

About the Google Silicon Engineer 2026 role

Google is hiring a Silicon Engineer into its Platform and Devices organisation through the University Graduate 2026 programme, based in Bengaluru. The Google Silicon Engineer 2026 role sits inside Google’s Consumer Hardware Silicon division, which builds chips optimised for Google-branded consumer devices across imaging, machine learning, video, and security. This is genuine silicon design work at one of the few companies designing its own consumer SoCs at scale – not a software role with a hardware label.

Key responsibilities

You will work with the SoC teams to develop power and performance optimised chips, and contribute to the design, verification, and silicon implementation of ASICs and SoCs. The work spans design concepts around CPUs, image processing, machine learning, computer vision, security, and video. You will also collaborate with teams on automating the SoC design flows, which means scripting and tooling sit alongside the core design work in Google Silicon Engineer 2026.

Minimum qualifications for Google Silicon Engineer 2026

Google lists two minimum requirements. First, a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Communication Engineering, a relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience. Second, experience with design concepts and computer hardware architecture. That second line is the one most applicants underweight – be ready to demonstrate real understanding of hardware architecture, not just coursework exposure, because Google screens hard on it.

Preferred qualifications for Google Silicon Engineer 2026

These are what separate shortlisted candidates. Google prefers internship work, work experience, or personal project experience outside the classroom in Hardware, Electrical Engineering, or Mechanical Engineering. It also lists experience in one or more of SoC/ASIC design, design verification, physical design, and design for testability, plus experience with Verilog/HDL or SystemVerilog coding. If you are targeting Google Silicon Engineer 2026, a personal RTL project on GitHub or an FPGA implementation you built yourself carries real weight here.

Selection process

Google has not published a round structure for this requisition. For University Graduate hardware roles, expect an online application and resume screen, one or more technical interviews covering digital design fundamentals, Verilog or SystemVerilog, computer architecture, and verification concepts, followed by team-matching discussions. Candidates for Google Silicon Engineer 2026 should be ready to write RTL on a whiteboard or shared editor and reason about timing, power, and area trade-offs.

Documents required

Keep an updated resume ready (build one free with the Resume Builder) along with your degree or provisional certificate, all semester mark sheets, a government photo ID, and a passport-size photograph. Because Google explicitly values project work outside the classroom, have GitHub links, FPGA project reports, or tapeout coursework accessible when you apply for Google Silicon Engineer 2026.

Preparation tips

Focus on digital design fundamentals first: combinational and sequential logic, FSMs, timing analysis, setup and hold, and clock domain crossing. Be genuinely fluent in Verilog or SystemVerilog rather than able to read it. Revise computer architecture – pipelining, caches, memory hierarchy – since Google names computer hardware architecture in the minimum qualifications. Understand what design verification and design for testability actually involve, and learn a scripting language such as Python or Tcl since the role covers automating SoC design flows. Run at least two timed mock rounds with the free aptitude practice tests on Freshershunt and rehearse a 90-second self-introduction that leads with your strongest hardware project before your Google Silicon Engineer 2026 interview.

How to apply for Google Silicon Engineer 2026

Click Apply Now on this page, or open the official Google Careers listing and apply through your Google Careers profile. University Graduate requisitions at Google fill quickly and are often closed early once application volume peaks, so apply as soon as you see it. Browse more live openings on the companies hiring freshers hub.

About Google Platform and Devices

Google’s Consumer Hardware Silicon division builds the chips behind Google-branded consumer devices, with product areas spanning imaging, machine learning, video, and security. Google describes its engineers as versatile and passionate people who take on new problems as the company pushes technology forward, developing products used by millions – the environment a Google Silicon Engineer 2026 hire joins.