EMC Test Engineer, Platforms Infrastructure Engineering

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

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Benefits package

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

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Physics, or a specialized field (e.g., Optics, Sensors, Audio/DSP, etc.), or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience working in a hardware testing environment.
• 2 years of experience in hardware compliance, EMC/EMI testing, or hardware validation.
• Experience developing and executing comprehensive EMC/EMI test plans (including radiated/conducted emissions, immunity, and ESD).
• Experience with hardware bring-up and troubleshooting, including performing root-cause analysis on compliance failures and recommend practical design mitigations (e.g., shielding, grounding, and PCB layout processing).

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics, or a related field (Optics, Sensors, Audio/DSP).
• 4 years of experience conducting standard immunity/emissions compliance tests (ESD, Surge, Radiated/Conducted) and root-cause failure analysis with practical shielding, filtering, and PCB layout mitigations.
• Experience operating of spectrum analyzers, receivers, generators, and amplifiers, backed by deep familiarity with global regulatory frameworks.
• Knowledge of global EMC/RF regulatory standards and compliance frameworks (FCC, CE, CISPR, IEC/EN, and KN/KS).
• Ability to lead technical projects, authored Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), and executed hardware platform bring-up utilizing various software tools.

About The Job

As a part of an EMC Test Engineer at Google, you will be responsible for ensuring that complex hardware systems comply with global Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) and Radio Frequency (RF) standards. You will own the entire hardware development life-cycle, from early engineering verification, formal certification and sustaining.

You will act as a critical technical gatekeeper and diagnostic expert, as it will unblock hardware release schedules by preparing Equipment Under Test (EUT), executing test plans, launching specialized offline workloads, and performing deep root-cause failure analysis to recommend design mitigations (such as layout, grounding, or shielding changes).

In this role, through process automation, meticulous component qualification, and deep cross-functional collaboration with hardware design, firmware, and external lab teams, the EMC Test Engineer ensures Google’s hardware platforms satisfy both internal engineering specifications and worldwide regulatory mandates efficiently.

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.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $132000 - $189000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Responsibilities

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• Develop and execute full test plans (radiated/conducted emissions, immunity, ElectroStatic Discharge (ESD) for NPI hardware in internal and external labs.
• Lead offline bring-up for EUTs, coordinating with firmware and lab teams to deploy custom workloads for off-network validation.
• Perform root-cause analysis on compliance failures and provide actionable design recommendations (shielding, layout, grounding).
• Drive EMC/ESD qualification for sensitive high-speed components (e.g., optical modules) to act as a critical release gate.
• Serve as a technical Subject Matter Expert (SME) to ensure "compliance-by-design" while expanding lab capabilities and authoring Standard Operating Procedure (SOPs).

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