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Form of workMinimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 2 years of experience working in a hardware research and development lab technical environment focused on test automation, data collection and analysis, or 1 year of experience with an advanced degree.
- Experience with DC/DC conversion and testing methodologies.
- Experience with testing equipment such as oscilloscopes, various probes, frequency response analyzers, power supplies, electronic loads, and DMMs.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience in power measurement equipment such as oscilloscopes, programmable power supplies, spectrum analyzers, DMMs and function generators.
- Experience in one or more scripting languages (e.g., Python), for test automation, data collection and analysis.
- Knowledge of one or more of the following: DC/DC converters, open compute power architecture, SoC power architecture, and component/tray/rack-level power management and optimization
- Understanding of Power Testing methodologies in bench level hardware validation using complex test equipment.
About the job
Our computational challenges are so big, complex and unique we can't just purchase off-the-shelf hardware, we've got to make it ourselves. Your team designs and builds the hardware, software and networking technologies that power all of Google's services. As a Hardware Engineer, you design and build the systems that are the heart of the world's largest and most powerful computing infrastructure. You develop from the lowest levels of circuit design to large system design and see those systems all the way through to high volume manufacturing. Your work has the potential to shape the machinery that goes into our cutting-edge data centers affecting millions of Google users.
With your technical expertise, you lead projects in multiple areas of expertise (i.e., engineering domains or systems) within a data center facility, including construction and equipment installation/troubleshooting/debugging with vendors.
Behind everything our users see online is the architecture built by the Technical Infrastructure team to keep it running. From developing and maintaining our data centers to building the next generation of Google platforms, we make Google's product portfolio possible. We're proud to be our engineers' engineers and love voiding warranties by taking things apart so we can rebuild them. We keep our networks up and running, ensuring our users have the best and fastest experience possible.
The US base salary range for this full-time position is $122,000-$178,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.
Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.
Responsibilities
- Collect and analyze aggregated data to enable data driven engineering decisions during hardware research and development, report on findings, reduce test data, and investigate test outcomes thoroughly down to a hardware interface or component level.
- Work with hardware designers and other diagnostics development teams to understand new project architectures and system components to implement support required for test and debug efforts.
- Define, execute and document electrical characterization, validation and qualification of on board system level power distribution network, covering from the power converter design to ASIC power integrity validation.
- Troubleshoot and root cause electrical component level defects and design issues. Support design engineers with debug, component validation, and failure analysis of released products.
- Develop test procedures for general qualification and testing of DUTs using automated/scripted tests as part of a larger automation suite.
