Product Safety Design Engineer

Google LLC; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 159,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus 15% target

Equity

Benefits

Job summary

Google LLC in Sunnyvale, CA seeks a Safety Engineer to collaborate with Product Development to enhance product safety and ensure compliance with worldwide safety standards. You will engage early with Electrical, Mechanical, Thermal, and Power teams to design for safety and work with compliance to meet requirements.

The role involves evaluating hazards, developing test plans, and coordinating with suppliers to meet safety goals for compute, storage, networking, and ML hardware.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 4 years of experience in product safety, or 3 years of experience with an advanced degree.
• 1 year of experience in technical leadership.
• Experience with test equipment such as oscilloscopes, hi-pot testers, electronic loads, etc.
• Experience with procedures related to obtaining international product safety approvals (CB, CE, NRTL/C, BIS CRS, KC, RCM, BSMI, CCC, etc.).

Responsibilities

• Work closely with hardware design teams and suppliers to understand new project architectures. Determine the appropriate safety standards and regulations.
• Apply Hazard Based Safety Engineering principles to evaluate the hazards. Provide feedback to the design team to mitigate those hazards.
• Develop test plans and lead a compliance testing team to extract key data to validate all safety goals are met in accordance with relevant standards and specifications. Resolve non-compliant issues by the most efficient and cost effective methods.
• Cultivate good working relationships with customers, external suppliers, agencies, and manufacturing to further safety goals. Help in developing strategy and roadmap for Safety initiatives to support power, cooling, and data center infrastructure.
• Domestic and international business travel may be required. Communicate and document findings, risks and recommendations, perform failure analysis to sustaining engineering teams of deployed products.

Skills

Technical leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Hazard Based Safety Engineering

Education

Bachelor's degree in EE/CE/Physics or related

Master's or PhD preferred

Tools

Oscilloscopes

Hi-pot testers

Electronic loads

Test equipment

Job description

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 4 years of experience working in product safety, or 3 years of experience with an advanced degree.
• 1 year of experience in technical leadership.
• Experience with test equipment such as oscilloscopes, hi-pot testers, electronic loads, etc.
• Experience with procedures related to obtaining international product safety approvals (CB, CE, NRTL/C, BIS CRS, KC, RCM, BSMI, CCC, etc.).

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics, or a related field.
• Experience working within full product delivery life-cycles in a dynamic fast-paced environment.
• Experience with large-scale fire and fault condition testing.
• Experience in Product Safety specifically with Information Technology Equipment, liquid cooling and cooling distribution units.
• Knowledge of the regulatory landscape and requirements in data center applications.

About the job

As a Safety Engineer in Platforms Engineering, you will play a key role in the development of one of the world's most impressive computing infrastructures. Your objective will be to collaborate closely with our Product Development Teams to propose, evaluate and qualify design features which enhance the level of product safety as well as to ensure compliance to relevant worldwide safety standards. This will involve engaging with various disciplines (Electrical, Mechanical, Thermal, Power, etc.) as early as possible in the Research and Development (R&D) cycle to ensure compliance by design rather than retrofit at a later time. In addition you will be required to proactively interface with the compliance team to ensure all requirements have been implemented from a practical perspective. 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. Our Mechanical Product Design Engineering Team members work cross-functionally to design, build, and deploy the latest technology to support the needs of compute, storage, networking, and machine learning hardware.Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with hardware design teams and suppliers to understand new project architectures. Determine the appropriate safety standards and regulations.
• Apply Hazard Based Safety Engineering principles to evaluate the hazards. Provide feedback to the design team to mitigate those hazards.
• Develop test plans and lead a compliance testing team to extract key data to validate all safety goals are met in accordance with relevant standards and specifications. Resolve non-compliant issues by the most efficient and cost effective methods.
• Cultivate good working relationships with customers, external suppliers, agencies, and manufacturing to further safety goals. Help in developing strategy and roadmap for Safety initiatives to support power, cooling, and data center infrastructure.
• Domestic and international business travel may be required. Communicate and document findings, risks and recommendations, perform failure analysis to sustaining engineering teams of deployed products.

US: $159000 - $230000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

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