Senior Silicon Product Architect - Custom & OTS

Google LLC; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 281,000 - 391,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grants

Benefits

Bonus target

Job summary

Google Sunnyvale, CA is seeking a Principal Silicon Product Engineer to lead the technical arm of the Silicon Sourcing organization, bridging hardware design, manufacturing ecosystems, and strategic sourcing across the silicon lifecycle.

You will drive architectural, manufacturing, and product engineering evaluations for Custom Silicon and Off-the-Shelf products, collaborating with Platforms Engineering and Cloud Supply Chain Operations to deliver performance breakthroughs.

Qualifications

• 15 years of relevant experience in Semiconductor Product Engineering, Silicon Architecture, Foundry Engineering, or Technical Sourcing Engineering.
• Experience with semiconductor product lifecycle: design tape-out, wafer fab processing, parametric yield analysis, advanced packaging/assembly, and high-volume test engineering (ATE/SLT).
• Experience evaluating and scaling leading-edge nodes (3nm, 2nm, and beyond) and heterogeneous packaging technologies (2.5D/3D, CoWoS, chiplets, HBM).
• Experience covering both Custom ASIC/COT flows and standardized high-performance compute silicon (GPUs, x86/ARM CPUs, high-speed networking, and memory architectures).

Responsibilities

• Serve as the principal technical authority across Custom Silicon (TPUs, gSOCs, ASICs) and OTS products (Switches, PCIe, CXL, CPUs), evaluating vendor capabilities and roadmaps.
• Architect and qualify heterogeneous integration paths (CoWoS, InFO, 3D stacking, HBM integration) and sub-tier components, establishing stringent readiness gates.
• Translate complex semiconductor physics and manufacturing realities into actionable sourcing leverage and risk mitigation across the silicon lifecycle.

Skills

Semiconductor product engineering

Silicon architecture

Foundry engineering

Technical sourcing engineering

ASIC/COT flows

Education

Master’s or Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Microelectronics, Materials Science, or related field

Job description

Google Sunnyvale, CA is seeking a Principal Silicon Product Engineer to lead the technical arm of the Silicon Sourcing organization, bridging hardware design, manufacturing ecosystems, and strategic sourcing across the silicon lifecycle.

You will drive architectural, manufacturing, and product engineering evaluations for Custom Silicon and Off-the-Shelf products, collaborating with Platforms Engineering and Cloud Supply Chain Operations to deliver performance breakthroughs.