Hardware Engineering Manager, Laptops and Tablets Platform Enablement

Google•San Jose, CA

20h•$188,000 - $274,000

About The Position

As a Hardware Engineering Manager on Google’s Laptops & Tablets (L&T) Platform Enablement team in San Jose, you will lead a specialized team of hardware engineers defining and enabling the next-generation laptop hardware ecosystem. You will serve as both a people leader and system architect, providing technical and personal guidance to your team and acting as the hardware authority while partnering with Software, Firmware, Silicon, Product Management, and Partner Engineering teams. You will drive multi-year platform roadmaps, establish scalable hardware design guides across major SoC architectures, and lead early reference validation platforms from concept and architecture through mass production. The role involves making technical decisions and arbitrating system trade-offs across silicon vendors, ODMs, and OEMs, alongside coaching and developing your engineering team. The Platforms and Devices team works across Google’s computing software platforms and first-party devices and services, combining AI, software, and hardware to develop technologies and experiences that make interactions with computing faster and more seamless.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
6 years of experience in consumer electronics hardware engineering, including laptop or notebook system design and architecture.
3 years of experience in technical leadership and people management.
Experience as a system architect across Software, Firmware, Silicon, Mechanical, and Thermal domains to resolve hardware and software co-design challenges.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Experience managing hardware engineering teams within the laptop or PC industry.
Experience with modern laptop platforms across x86 or ARM SoC architectures, including low-power system design, USB-C/PD, high-speed interfaces (PCIe, USB4/Thunderbolt, LPDDR/DDR, eDP/DP, MIPI), Embedded Controllers (EC), and hardware security.
Experience collaborating with SoC vendors, ODMs, and OEMs to deliver platform design guides, reference platforms, and commercial laptop portfolios.

Responsibilities

Manage, mentor, and grow a globally distributed team of hardware engineers; set goals, prioritize resources across programs, and support career growth.
Act as lead hardware architect and technical authority across Software, Firmware, Silicon, Mechanical, Thermal, and Product Management teams, translating product and OS requirements into laptop system architectures.
Drive the definition, architecture, and delivery of hardware design guides, reference validation platforms, and platform enablement frameworks from concept to launch.
Guide system design, bring-up, and validation; arbitrate architectural trade-offs and drive root-cause resolution across hardware, firmware, and software domains.
Lead technical engagements with silicon providers, ODMs, and ecosystem partners to align multi-year platform roadmaps and optimize performance, power, quality, and cost.