Technical Lead, Platforms, Hardware Validation and Infrastructure

Google • Sunnyvale, CA

8h • $221,000 - $311,000 • Onsite

About The Position

The Google Platforms Infrastructure Engineering team is responsible for the design, development, and delivery of Google’s compute and storage machines to satisfy Google Data Center internal use and external Cloud customers. Our team designs and builds the hardware, software, and networking technologies that power all of Google's services. As a Hardware Engineer, you will design and build the systems that are the heart of the world's largest and most powerful computing infrastructure. You will see those systems from concepts all the way through to high-volume manufacturing. You will have the potential to shape the machinery that goes into our data centers, affecting millions of Google users.

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 the driving force behind Google's groundbreaking innovations, empowering the development of our cutting-edge 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.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience working in a data center systems architecture, design, hardware bring-up and validation technical environment.
• 5 years of experience in technical leadership.

Nice To Haves

• PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience using data analytics to inform strategies for qualification and design validation.

Responsibilities

• Lead system and subsystem hardware validation for data center products.
• Develop strategy and roadmap for test infrastructure and processes to meet future technology and portfolio requirements.
• Gather requirements, define high level architecture and execution strategy for product hardware validation.
• Work closely with engineering, manufacturing, product, and deployment teams to support deployment and field support in Google data centers.
• Work closely with external technology and system partners and represent Google’s technical requirements with these partners; also partner extensively with software development and validation teams on qualification, verification strategy and planning.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level