Hardware Engineering Manager — Data Center Reliability Lead

Socket.dev; Sunnyvale (TX); On-site; USD 188,000 - 274,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

20% bonus target

Equity

Benefits

Job summary

Google’s Platforms Infrastructure Engineering team designs and builds the hardware and software technologies powering all services. You’ll help shape systems from concept through high-volume manufacturing, impacting millions of users in Google data centers.

As a hardware engineer, you’ll participate in complex challenges, work with customers and internal teams, and drive improvements across fleet analysis and triage to speed resolutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in an engineering field and equivalent practical experience.
• Minimum 6 years of hardware quality experience in data centers or IT environments.
• At least 3 years of technical leadership experience.
• Experience with data center and enterprise hardware (servers, storage, networking, AI systems), design processes and verification methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Work directly with customers, data center teams and manufacturing teams to understand and analyze hardware quality issues.
• Partner with internal hardware and software teams and external vendors to triage and root cause hardware reliability issues.
• Lead systemic changes to drive continuous improvement in fleet analysis and triage of hardware issues to get to improve speed to resolution.
• Represent the Fleet Hardware Reliability team within the broader platforms design, deployment and supply chain organizations.

Skills

Hardware quality

Data center hardware

Technical leadership

Design processes

Verification methodologies

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering / Computer Engineering / Physics or related field

PhD in Electrical Engineering / Computer Engineering / Physics or related field

Job description

Google’s Platforms Infrastructure Engineering team designs and builds the hardware and software technologies powering all services. You’ll help shape systems from concept through high-volume manufacturing, impacting millions of users in Google data centers.

As a hardware engineer, you’ll participate in complex challenges, work with customers and internal teams, and drive improvements across fleet analysis and triage to speed resolutions.