Job Description

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 4 years of experience working in a hardware or power technical environment, or 3 years of experience with an advanced degree.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master degree or PhD in power electronics, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in design, analysis/development.
• Experience with power system design and power converter design (e.g., AC/DC and DC/DC).
• Experience with power electronics fundamentals and power conversion designs for data center power delivery.
• Experience with power converter modeling and simulation.
• Ability to execute your own work with minimal supervision.

About the job

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.

In this role, you will manage projects in multiple areas with your expertise. You will also monitor the performance of vendors working on projects and evaluate new technologies.

Our Platforms Infrastructure Engineering team designs and builds the
hardware and software technologies that power all of Google's services. Our computational challenges are complex and unique, enabled by cutting-edge custom hardware designed and made in-house. 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 concept 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.

Responsibilities

• Innovate and design on rack and data center power conversion specifications and solutions, and investigate performance, cost, reliability, and availability trade-offs.
• Manage projects that involve new technologies or new uses of multiple existing technologies.
• Partner with power industry leaders to guide the evaluation and adoption of technologies.
• Engage cross-functionally to ensure successful roll-out, testing, and complete validation.
• Provide technical leadership and direction while troubleshooting system level power delivery issues.