Senior Product Safety Design Engineer, Platforms

Google; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 159,000 - 231,000; Full time

Job summary

Google is seeking a Safety Engineer within Platforms Engineering to help develop one of the world’s most impressive computing infrastructures. You will collaborate with Product Development teams to propose, evaluate and qualify design features that enhance product safety and ensure compliance with worldwide standards.

You will engage with electrical, mechanical, thermal, and power disciplines early in the R&D cycle, interfacing with the compliance team to ensure practical implementation.

Qualifications

• Degree or equivalent practical experience in engineering or related field.
• Experience: 4 years in product safety, or 3 years with an advanced degree.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with hardware design teams and suppliers to apply safety standards and regulations.
• Apply hazard-based safety engineering to identify and mitigate hazards.
• Develop and execute test plans and lead compliance testing to validate safety goals.
• Build relationships with customers, suppliers, agencies and manufacturing to advance safety initiatives.
• Travel domestically and internationally as required to document findings and support sustaining engineering.

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience

Master's degree or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics, or a related field

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.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics, or a related field.
• 1 year of experience in technical leadership.
• Experience with procedures related to obtaining international product safety approvals (e.g., CB, CE, NRTL/C, BIS CRS, KC, RCM, BSMI, CCC, etc.).
• Experience with test equipment such as oscilloscopes, hi‑pot testers, electronic loads, etc.

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. You will be involved in engaging with various disciplines (e.g., 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. You will be required to proactively interface with the compliance team to ensure all requirements have been implemented from a practical perspective.

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: $159,000 - $231,000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with hardware design teams and suppliers to understand new project architectures and determine the appropriate safety standards and regulations.
• Apply hazard‑based safety engineering principles to evaluate the hazards and provide feedback to the design team to mitigate those hazards.
• Develop and execute test plans while leading a compliance testing team to extract key data, validate all safety goals against relevant standards and specifications, and resolve non‑compliant issues through 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.
• Travel domestically and internationally as business requires to communicate and document findings, risks and recommendations, and perform failure analysis for sustaining engineering teams of deployed products.

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.