Senior Robotics Automation Engineer, Platforms Infrastructure

Google; Redmond (WA); On-site; USD 159,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) match

Vacation 20 days

Sick time 40h/yr

Maternity leave 28-30 wks

Baby bondings leave 18 weeks

Holidays 13 days

Job summary

Google is seeking a Robotics Automation Hardware Engineer to join its Physical Infrastructure Robotics team, leading multi-disciplinary work to deploy robotics technologies inside data centers. You will collaborate with hardware, software, and systems engineers to ensure seamless integration of robotic solutions into infrastructure operations.

As part of the AI and Infrastructure group, you will contribute to scalable, reliable, and efficient implementations for Googlers, Google Cloud customers,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in mechatronics engineering and robotics product development.
• Experience in shipping full-stack robotics systems.
• Experience in robotics industry, robotics applications development and turning R&D into deployed systems.
• Experience in robotic control, planning, kinematics, and mechatronic systems.

Responsibilities

• Set the goal for robotics stack-guiding architecture, systems design, and integration, aligning with Robotics initiatives and roadmap.
• Build and lead engineering teams across mechanical, electrical, embedded, and software disciplines within Robotics.
• Lead hardware architecture reviews with software and system teams to ensure design quality and scalability.
• Facilitate design reviews, document decisions, specifications, test procedures and results for knowledge sharing.
• Provide technical support to internal teams and external partners through the development life-cycle.

Skills

Robotics product development

Full-stack robotics

Robotics control

Kinematics

Mechatronic systems

Sensor integration

Cross-functional leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Tools

ROS

RTOS

FPGA

Job description

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
  

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in mechatronics engineering and robotics product development.
• Experience in shipping full-stack robotics systems.
• Experience in robotics industry, robotics applications development and experience turning Research and Development (R&D) into deployed, real world systems.
• Experience in robotic control, planning, kinematics, and mechatronic systems.
  

Preferred qualifications

• 5 years of experience with the overall process for developing robotics products, including experience identifying issues and considerations for delivering a robotics product.
• Experience with sensor integration and calibration for robotics applications, including vision systems, LiDAR, and inertial measurement units (IMUs).
• Experience in project management or leadership roles, including the experience in leading cross-functional teams and driving projects to successful completion.
• Experience with collaborative robot (cobot) systems, human-robot interaction (HRI) design considerations, embedded systems (RTOS, microcontrollers, FPGA), sensor fusion, and actuator control.
• Experience building hardware and embedded architectures that support state estimation, SLAM, and proprioception sensor pipelines, while ensuring compliance with embodied AI safety standards across distributed fleet orchestration environments.
• Familiarity with motion control systems and robotics programming languages such as ROS (Robot Operating System) or similar frameworks.
  

About the job

In this role, as a Robotics Automation Hardware Engineer on Google's Physical infrastructure Robotics team, you will join a team dedicated to implementing robotics technologies and solutions to transform operations inside our data centers. You will lead across multiple robotics engineering disciplines to develop innovative and industry-leading solutions to enable next-generation data center operations. In this role, you will collaborate closely with hardware, software and system engineers to ensure seamless product integration, and integration of the solutions into our infrastructure operations.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 behind Google's groundbreaking innovations, empowering the development of 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: $159000 - $230000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Responsibilities

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• Set the goal for robotics stack-guiding architecture, systems design, and integration, and collaborate closely with executive leadership to align on Robotics initiatives and roadmap, engineering execution with business goals.
• Build and lead high-performing engineering teams across mechanical, electrical, embedded, and software disciplines within Robotics engineering.
• Lead hardware architecture reviews with software and system teams to identify and address potential gaps in the technical design, ensuring the overall solution performance and scalability.
• Facilitate and participate in design reviews to address technical challenges during the development, document design decisions, specifications, test procedures, and results, maintaining clear and organized records to improve knowledge sharing and project continuity.
• Provide technical support and guidance to internal teams and external partners (including solution vendors and Contract Manufacturers) throughout the development life-cycle, addressing inquiries and resolving issues as they arise.
  

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 .