AI Platform & Hardware Engineer

Google; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 159,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

401(k) with company match

PTO 20 days per year

Sick time 40 hours/year

Maternity leave 28-30 weeks

Baby bonding leave 18 weeks

Holidays 13 days

Job summary

Google is seeking a Platform Application Engineer (Hardware Engineer) to solve complex hardware observations, perform deep hardware analysis and debugging, and drive root-cause resolutions across AI/ML infrastructure. You will work with engineering and product teams to continually improve our Google Cloud hardware solutions.

We leverage cutting-edge technology to empower customers worldwide, with emphasis on scalable, reliable platform performance and collaboration across SRE and development

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, MIS, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 4 years of debug or validation experience with CPU, dGPU, or TPU.
• 4 years in technical infrastructure deployment, maintenance, and troubleshooting.
• 3 years hardware debug (silicon, platform, IO, or memory analysis).
• Experience debugging issues across the stack (hardware faults, software, networking, kernel drivers, firmware).
• Experience with Linux/Unix systems and debugging across hardware/software boundary on enterprise servers.

Responsibilities

• Diagnose and resolve AI/ML infrastructure issues to improve platform reliability.
• Collaborate with Product, Quality, and Engineering teams; engage SRE for behavior understanding.
• Debug platform hardware and silicon issues to drive root-cause resolution.
• Develop tools to diagnose AI/ML workloads and underlying hardware architectures.
• Act as SME for internal stakeholders to resolve deployment and operational obstacles.

Skills

CPU debugging

GPU/TPU debugging

Infrastructure debugging

Hardware debugging

Linux/Unix

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

Slurm

Job description

Google is seeking a Platform Application Engineer (Hardware Engineer) to solve complex hardware observations, perform deep hardware analysis and debugging, and drive root-cause resolutions across AI/ML infrastructure. You will work with engineering and product teams to continually improve our Google Cloud hardware solutions.

We leverage cutting-edge technology to empower customers worldwide, with emphasis on scalable, reliable platform performance and collaboration across SRE and development