Regional Lead Data Center Electrical Engineer, Google Data Centers

Google; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 214,000 - 298,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, vision, life, and AD&D

401(k) with company match

Paid Time Off: 20 days/year

Sick time: 40 hours/year (Seattle 69)

Maternity leave: 28-30 weeks

Baby bonding leave: 18 weeks

13 holidays per year

Job summary

Google seeks a Lead Electrical Engineer for Data Center Services in North America to drive electrical design, construction, and commissioning of high-velocity data center infrastructure. You will lead cross-functional teams, ensure safety and reliability, and champion continuous improvement across projects.

You will coordinate Basis of Design development, provide on-site expertise, and mentor engineers while collaborating with internal stakeholders to meet aggressive schedules and standards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Power Engineering, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 12 years of experience in mission critical facility design and construction environments.
• 12 years of experience in electrical design, operations, and commissioning of substations, switchgear, ATP/ATS, emergency power systems, power monitoring, and electrical protection.
• 12 years as a practicing engineer.
• 5 years in leadership roles.
• Experience in electrical infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Provide expert technical support and leadership to on-site DCS teams across North America, sharing lessons learned, best practices, and advocating continuous improvement.
• Represent DCS in development, implementation, and management of electrical designs at site and regional portfolio level.
• Act as escalation point for on-site engineers for RFIs.
• Collaborate with core engineering to develop Basis of Design and coordinate schematics.
• Provide leadership to on-site DCS engineers, GCs, and vendors during project execution.

Skills

Electrical design

Leadership

Cross-discipline collaboration

Project management

Education

Bachelor's in Electrical Engineering

Power Engineering background

Master's degree (preferred)

Tools

SCADA systems

Job description

Applicants in San Francisco: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.

In accordance with Washington state law, we are highlighting our comprehensive benefits package, which is available to all eligible US based employees. Benefits for this role include:

• Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
• Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
• Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
• Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance
• Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
• Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
• Holidays: 13 paid days per year

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Sunnyvale, CA, USA; Lithia Springs, GA, USA; Atlanta, GA, USA; Austin, TX, USA; Council Bluffs, IA, USA; Ridgeville, SC, USA; Cedar Rapids, IA, USA; Clarksville, TN, USA; Columbus, OH, USA; Lancaster, OH, USA; New Albany, OH, USA; Addison, TX, USA; Midlothian, TX, USA; Red Oak, TX, USA; The Dalles, OR, USA; Fort Wayne, IN, USA; Sterling, VA, USA; Leesburg, VA, USA; Kirkland, WA, USA; Henderson, NV, USA; Lincoln, NE, USA; Lenoir, NC, USA; Kansas City, MO, USA; Muskogee, OK, USA; Moncks Corner, SC, USA; New York, NY, USA; Phoenix, AZ, USA; Pryor, OK, USA; Reston, VA, USA; Reno, NV, USA; Seattle, WA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA; Tulsa, OK, USA; Bridgeport, AL, USA; Papillion, NE, USA; Bristow, VA, USA.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Power Engineering, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 12 years of experience in mission critical facility design and construction environments.
• 12 years of experience in electrical design, operations, and commissioning of substations, switchgear, ATP/ATS, emergency power systems, power monitoring, and electrical protection.
• 12 years of experience as a practicing engineer.
• 5 years of experience in leadership roles.
• Experience in electrical infrastructure.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree in Engineering, Business, or other relevant fields.
• Professional Engineering (PE) license.
• Experience with medium voltage systems.
• Experience with cross-discipline teams (e.g., structural, civil, IT/Telecom, security, mechanical, architectural).
• Experience in design, construction, and commissioning of high voltage substations, medium or low voltage electrical distribution systems, alternating Current (AC)/Direct Current (DC) systems, and associated power management or Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) tools.
• Experience working with data center equipment and environments (e.g., switchgear, generators, transformers, controls, security monitoring systems, fire safety systems), with an understanding of start up/commissioning processes.

About The Job

Our thirst for technology is a part of everything we do. The Data Center Engineering team takes the physical design of our data centers into the future. Our lab mirrors a research and development department -- cutting-edge strategies are born, tested and tested again. Along with a team of great minds, you take on complex topics like how we use power or how to run state-of-the-art, environmentally-friendly facilities. You're a visionary who optimizes for efficiencies and never stops seeking improvements -- even small changes that can make a huge impact. You generate ideas, communicate recommendations to senior-level executives and drive implementation alongside facilities technicians.

With your technical expertise, you ensure compliance with codes and standards, develop infrastructure improvements and serve as an expert in your specialty (e.g., cooling, electrical).

As a Lead Electrical Engineer (EE) in Data Center Services (DCS) team, you will drive consistency in technical planning/execution across North America. In this role, you will be a technical subject matter expert to our on-site execution teams, sharing best practices, lessons learned, and being a trusted advisor cross-functionally. You will represent DCS in various programmatic initiatives where a construction execution lens is required. You will act as an advocate of continuous improvement, delivery optimization, and closed loop learning, ensuring our facilities are built to the highest standards of safety, reliability, and efficiency.

The AI and Infrastructure team is redefining what's possible. We empower Google customers with breakthrough capabilities and insights by delivering AI and Infrastructure at unparalleled scale, efficiency, reliability and velocity. Our customers include Googlers, Google Cloud customers, and billions of Google users worldwide. We're the driving force behind Google's groundbreaking innovations, empowering the development of our cutting-edge AI models, delivering unparalleled computing power to global services, and providing the essential platforms that enable developers to build the future. From software to hardware our teams are shaping the future of world-leading hyperscale computing, with key teams working on the development of our TPUs, Vertex AI for Google Cloud, Google Global Networking, Data Center operations, systems research, and much more.

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

US: $214000 - $298000 (USD) + 25% bonus target + equity + benefits

Responsibilities

• Provide expert technical support and leadership to on-site DCS teams across North America, sharing lessons learned, best practices, and advocating continuous improvement.
• Represent DCS in the development, implementation, and management of electrical designs at the site and regional portfolio level, starting from the Basis of Design (BoD) through to the issuance of construction documents for new builds, infrastructure upgrades, and renovations.
• Act as escalation point for on site engineers when responding site-specific engineering Requests for Information (RFI), ensuring alignment between Google's requirements and the overall design.
• Work closely with the core engineering team to provide site-specific requirements during the development of the Basis of Design (BOD) and coordinate system-level schematics.
• Provide leadership to on-site DCS engineers, general contractors, and vendors to manage site-level power system issues during project execution.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form .