Senior Product Engineer, Global Manufacturing Engineering

Google•Sunnyvale, CA

3h•$144,000 - $209,000

About The Position

Be part of a team that pushes boundaries, developing custom silicon solutions that power the future of Google's direct-to-consumer products. You'll contribute to the innovation behind products loved by millions worldwide. Your expertise will shape the next generation of hardware experiences, delivering unparalleled performance, efficiency, and integration. As a part of the Senior Product Engineer for Global Manufacturing Engineering, you will play a pivotal role in building, optimizing, and integrating hardware platforms for Google’s data centers. You will operate within the Technical Infrastructure team, as this position serves as a critical bridge between New Product Introduction (NPI) teams and contract manufacturing partners globally. You will oversee the early engagement phases of server, storage, switch, rack, or accelerator hardware and successfully transition these complex platforms into sustaining, high-volume production environments. In this role, you will bring a passion for technical troubleshooting and product efficiency, leading efforts to diagnose manufacturing yield issues and resolve data center field escapes. You will collaborate deeply with both internal engineering teams and manufacturing partners, analyze electrical schematics, evaluate bills of materials, and execute engineering change orders to continuously improve test coverage and reduce costs. Your role is ideal for an engineer with over a decade of manufacturing experience who grows on solving intricate hardware issues and ensuring factory readiness at scale.The AI and Infrastructure team is redefining what’s possible. We empower Google customers with breakthrough capabilities and insights by delivering AI and Infrastructure at unparalleled scale, efficiency, reliability and velocity. Our customers include Googlers, Google Cloud customers, and billions of Google users worldwide. We're behind Google's groundbreaking innovations, empowering the development of AI models, delivering unparalleled computing power to global services, and providing the essential platforms that enable developers to build the future. From software to hardware our teams are shaping the future of world-leading hyperscale computing, with key teams working on the development of our TPUs, Vertex AI for Google Cloud, Google Global Networking, Data Center operations, systems research, and much more.Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. US: $144000 - $209000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + bonus + equity + benefits Learn more about benefits at Google [https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/benefits/].

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechatronics or equivalent engineering experience.
8 years of experience in manufacturing servers, data center architecture, electrical networking switches, enterprise storage arrays, or machine learning hardware (GPUs, TPUs, or accelerators).
Experience developing, testing, and integrating electrical and mechanical hardware systems directly with power, cooling, and networking infrastructure.
Experience working with contract manufacturing (CM) or Original Design Manufacturers (ODM) partners to manage factory readiness, execute Engineering Change Orders (ECOs), and resolve manufacturing yield issues.

Nice To Haves

Master's degree or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechatronics, or a related technical discipline.
12 years of direct experience engineering and scaling hyper-scale data center infrastructure or enterprise-level hardware (e.g., high-performance servers, storage arrays, high-speed switches, or custom accelerators).
Experience with cross-functional integration of complex electrical and mechanical hardware with facility-level power distribution, liquid/air cooling systems, and high-density networking infrastructures.
Experience using statistical process control (SPC), Six Sigma methodologies, and electrical/mechanical failure analysis to proactively eliminate data center field escapes and drive manufacturing cost reductions.

Responsibilities

Build, optimize, and integrate Google data center hardware platforms (servers, storage, switches, racks, or accelerators) with global manufacturing partners.
Partner with the NPI team to define Design for Manufacturability (DFM) requirements, provide manufacturing strategy input, and lead early engagement through the transition to sustaining production.
Analyze, troubleshoot, and root-cause manufacturing yield issues and data center field escapes, driving sustainable corrective and preventive measures.
Collaborate with internal and partner engineers to enhance manufacturing efficiency, maximize test coverage, and reduce overall production costs.
Manage engineering change orders (ECOs) and product changes, both proactively and reactively to optimize hardware design and manufacturing performance.