Senior Manager, Fleet Hardware Engineering, Google Cloud

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

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.

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.

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