Senior Manager, Fleet Hardware Engineering, Google Cloud

Socket.dev; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 236,000 - 329,000; Full time

Job summary

Google is seeking a seasoned hardware quality engineer to drive leadership across data center hardware programs. You will collaborate with customers, data center teams, and manufacturing to analyze issues and implement robust fixes from concept to production.

The role emphasizes stabilization of hardware design, validation, and deployment processes, with frequent executive communication and a track record of delivering systemic improvements for large-scale infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience working on hardware quality within a data center or IT environment.
• 5 years of experience in technical leadership.
• 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 governance

Technical leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Data center hardware

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering

Master’s degree preferred

Job description

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.


• 8 years of experience working on hardware quality within a data center or IT environment.


• 5 years of experience in technical leadership.


• Experience with data center and enterprise hardware (servers, storage, networking and AI systems), design processes and verification methodologies.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.


• Experience presenting to executive leadership.


• Experience working with the cross functional engineering teams, supply chain team, and the Data Center team.

About the job:

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. As a hardware engineer, you will design and build the systems that are the heart of the world's largest and most powerful computing infrastructure. You will see those systems from concept all the way through to high-volume manufacturing. Your work has the potential to shape the machinery that goes into our cutting-edge data centers, affecting millions of Google users.

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

US: $236000 - $329000 (USD) + 25% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google.

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.