Minimum 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 or power technical environment, or 1 year of experience with an advanced degree.
Preferred qualifications:
- Master's or PhD degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics, or a related field.
- 5 years of experience in design, analysis/development or experience with DC/DC power converter design.
- Experience in power system design.
- Knowledge of power converter modeling and simulation.
- Ability to execute 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 the 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 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 concepts all the way through to high-volume manufacturing. Your work has the potential to shape the machinery that goes into our data centers, affecting millions of Google users.
Responsibilities
- Innovate and design on-board power conversion specifications and solutions. Analyze performance, cost, reliability and availability trade-offs.
- Lead projects that involve new technologies or new uses of multiple existing technologies.
- Partner with power industry leaders to lead the evaluation and adoption of the most compelling technologies.
- Engage cross-functionally to ensure successful roll-out, testing and complete validation.
- Provide technical leadership and direction while troubleshooting complex system level power delivery issues.