Mechanical Engineer, Google Data Centers
Reston, VA
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 5 years of experience in mission critical facility design and construction environments.
- Experience in mechanical infrastructure.
Preferred qualifications:
- Master's degree in Engineering, Business, a relevant field, or a professional engineering license.
- Experience in design, construction, and commissioning of mechanical cooling plants, fire suppression systems, fuel oil systems, domestic water systems, and sanitary sewer systems in mission critical facility design and construction environment.
- Experience estimating, mechanical design, operation, and commissioning of mission critical data center mechanical equipment.
- Experience designing complex modular building scale assemblies, with an understanding of mechanical tolerances/tolerance analysis.
- Knowledge of mechanical engineering and design principles with specific expertise in the areas of design for medium-scale production, structural beams/elements, and international building codes.
About the job
Our thirst for technology is a part of everything we do. The Data Center Engineering team takes the physical design of our data centers into the future. Our lab mirrors a research and development department -- cutting-edge strategies are born, tested and tested again. Along with a team of great minds, you take on complex topics like how we use power or how to run state-of-the-art, environmentally-friendly facilities. You're a visionary who optimizes for efficiencies and never stops seeking improvements -- even small changes that can make a huge impact. You generate ideas, communicate recommendations to senior-level executives and drive implementation alongside facilities technicians.With your technical expertise, you ensure compliance with codes and standards, develop infrastructure improvements and serve as an expert in your specialty (e.g., cooling, electrical).
As a Mechanical Engineer, you will use your experience with design, construction, equipment operation and maintenance in the area of complex mission critical facilities. You will be involved in the development of complex mechanical systems and liquid cooled racks. Project involvement starts at due diligence, progresses through construction and commissioning, and develops into sustaining support for the internal operations team. You will provide and prepare all types of documents including: facility review checklists, facility audits, statement of work (SOW), total cost of ownership (TCO), concept design reviews, drawing review, budget, schedule, factory test and acceptance documents.
The US base salary range for this full-time position is $144,000-$209,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.Responsibilities
- Lead the technical due diligence, design, and delivery of hyperscale data centers, collaborating across disciplines to resolve complex engineering issues.
- Develop and maintain internal design specifications and standards, providing technical support and mechanical system expertise for campus planning and hydraulic analysis.
- Oversee A/E consultants by peer-reviewing deliverables, including calculations and models, to ensure conformity with established engineering standards and optimization opportunities.
- Analyze system redundancies and failure modes using RAM models to mitigate single points of failure and improve overall design reliability.
- Manage change documentation and deliver stakeholder presentations to communicate engineering findings, streamlining construction issue resolutions and design improvements.
About the Company
Build for everyone
Since our founding in 1998, Google has grown by leaps and bounds. Starting from two computer science students in a university dorm room, we now have thousands of employees and offices around the world. These Googlers build products that help create opportunities for everyone, whether down the street or across the globe.
It starts with how we work together. We’re building a company where people of different views, backgrounds and experiences can do their best work and show up for one another. A place where every Googler feels like they belong.
So whether you develop new technology or creative campaigns, craft beautiful products or breakthrough partnerships, your work here is a chance to accomplish things that matter. Bring your insight, imagination, and healthy disregard for the impossible. Bring everything that makes you unique. Together, we can build for everyone.
Benefits
We strive to provide Googlers and their loved ones with a world-class benefits experience, focused on supporting their physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing. Our benefits are based on data, and centered around our users: Googlers and their families. They’re thoughtfully designed to enhance your health and wellbeing, and generous enough to make it easy for you to take good care of yourself (now, and in the future). So we can build for everyone, together.
Learn more about Google’s benefits on this site featuring Googlers’ experience.
How we Hire
Google’s hiring process is an important part of our culture. Googlers care deeply about their teams and the people who make them up. In order to build for everyone, we know that we need a wide range of perspectives and experiences, and a fair hiring process is the first step in getting there.