Principal Silicon Product Engineer — Shape Next‑Gen Compute

Google LLC; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 281,000 - 391,000; Full time

Job summary

Google LLC is hiring a Principal Silicon Product Engineer in Sunnyvale, CA. You will serve as the chief technical authority for the Silicon Sourcing organization, bridging hardware engineering design, manufacturing ecosystems, and strategic sourcing across the silicon lifecycle.

You will drive architectural, manufacturing, and product engineering evaluations for Custom Silicon and Off-the-Shelf products, engaging with foundries and major vendors.

Qualifications

• 15 years of relevant experience in Semiconductor Product Engineering, Silicon Architecture, Foundry Engineering, or Technical Sourcing Engineering.
• Experience with semiconductor product lifecycle: design tape-out, wafer fab processing, parametric yield analysis, advanced packaging/assembly, and high-volume test engineering (ATE/SLT).
• Experience evaluating and scaling leading-edge nodes (3nm, 2nm, and beyond) and heterogeneous packaging technologies (2.5D/3D, CoWoS, chiplets, HBM).
• Experience covering both Custom ASIC/COT flows and standardized high-performance compute silicon (GPUs, x86/ARM CPUs, high-speed networking, and memory architectures).

Responsibilities

• Serve as the principal technical authority across Custom Silicon and OTS products, evaluating vendor capabilities and roadmaps.
• Architect and qualify heterogeneous integration paths and sub-tier components, establishing mechanical and thermal readiness gates.
• Lead technical evaluations of process nodes, work with foundries on defect densities and DFM/PDK, and secure optimal node execution.

Skills

Semiconductor product engineering

Silicon architecture

Foundry engineering

Technical sourcing engineering

HW test & evaluation (ATE/SLT)

Education

Master's or Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering / Microelectronics

Job description

Google LLC is hiring a Principal Silicon Product Engineer in Sunnyvale, CA. You will serve as the chief technical authority for the Silicon Sourcing organization, bridging hardware engineering design, manufacturing ecosystems, and strategic sourcing across the silicon lifecycle.

You will drive architectural, manufacturing, and product engineering evaluations for Custom Silicon and Off-the-Shelf products, engaging with foundries and major vendors.