EMC/EMI Test Engineer - Platforms Infrastructure

Google; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 113,000 - 189,000; Full time

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Job summary

Google's EMC Test Engineer role in Sunnyvale, CA focuses on ensuring hardware compliance with global EMC/RF standards. You will own the hardware development life-cycle from verification to certification and sustaining, acting as a gatekeeper for releases.

You will drive test plans, perform root-cause analysis, and recommend design mitigations such as shielding or grounding; you will collaborate with hardware design, firmware, and lab teams to meet internal specs and worldwide regulations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Physics, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of hardware testing experience.
• 2 years in hardware compliance, EMC/EMI testing, or hardware validation.
• Experience developing and executing EMC/EMI test plans.
• Experience with hardware bring-up and root-cause analysis of compliance failures.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute full test plans (radiated/conducted emissions, immunity, ESD) for NP I hardware in internal and external labs.
• Lead offline bring-up for EUTs with firmware and lab teams to deploy custom workloads for validation.
• Perform root-cause analysis on compliance failures and provide design recommendations (shielding, layout, grounding).
• Drive EMC/ESD qualification for high-speed components to act as a release gate.
• Serve as SME to ensure compliance-by-design and expand lab capabilities with SOPs.

Skills

EMC/EMI testing

Test planning

Root-cause analysis

Hardware bring-up

Cross-functional collaboration

SOPs writing

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent in EE/CE/CS/Physics

Master's degree or PhD in related field

Tools

Spectrum analyzers

Receivers

Generators

Amplifiers

Job description

Google's EMC Test Engineer role in Sunnyvale, CA focuses on ensuring hardware compliance with global EMC/RF standards. You will own the hardware development life-cycle from verification to certification and sustaining, acting as a gatekeeper for releases.

You will drive test plans, perform root-cause analysis, and recommend design mitigations such as shielding or grounding; you will collaborate with hardware design, firmware, and lab teams to meet internal specs and worldwide regulations.