Senior Hardware Engineering Manager, Data Center Systems

Google; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 236,000 - 329,000; Full time

Job summary

Google is building the hardware and software powering its vast services. As a hardware engineer, you will help design and build systems powering data centers, from concept to high-volume manufacturing, impacting millions of users.

The role emphasizes hardware quality leadership, cross-functional collaboration, and root cause analysis with internal teams and vendors, with executive-level communication and continuous improvement goals.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience in EE/CE/Physics or related field.
• 8 years of hardware quality experience in data center/IT environment.
• 5 years of technical leadership experience.
• Experience with data center and enterprise hardware (servers, storage, networking and 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, root cause and fix hardware quality issues.
• Lead systemic changes to drive continuous improvement in hardware design, validation and deployment with the goal of preventing future quality issues.
• Present to Directors and VPs inside and outside of Google.

Skills

Hardware quality

Technical leadership

Executive presentation

Data center hardware experience

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Job description

Google is building the hardware and software powering its vast services. As a hardware engineer, you will help design and build systems powering data centers, from concept to high-volume manufacturing, impacting millions of users.

The role emphasizes hardware quality leadership, cross-functional collaboration, and root cause analysis with internal teams and vendors, with executive-level communication and continuous improvement goals.