Power Systems Engineer, Google Data Centers
Reston, VA
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Power Engineering, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 12 years of experience in mission critical facility design and construction environments.
- Experience with electric power industry standards, building codes and safety standards including NEC, ANSI, IEC, IEEE, NFPA, UL, UFC and UBC.
- Experience in mission critical facility design and construction environments.
- Experience in infrastructure design of electrical systems.
Preferred qualifications:
- Master's degree in Engineering, Business or other relevant fields.
- Professional Engineering (PE) license.
- 12 years of experience in High Voltage (HV) and Medium Voltage (MV) infrastructure design and distribution equipment, including switchgear, transformers, protective relaying, UPS, and emergency generation systems.
- Experience with electrical distribution, energy storage, and electrical generation technologies, including other microgrid resources.
- Experience with designing High Voltage (HV), Medium Voltage (MV), and Low Voltage (LV) systems.
- Knowledge of data center electrical systems design and operation across HV-MV-LV power distribution, backup power, energy storage and onsite generation.
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).
The US base salary range for this full-time position is $214,000-$298,000 + 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
- Collaborate with team members on creating future data center architecture and design concepts.
- Investigate renewable power generation, storage technologies and other Carbon Free Energy (CFE) technologies and find best ways to integrate them into the electrical system architecture.
- Create and maintain plan of record electrical single line and layouts that will help quick implementation in the field.
- Develop architecture and products which will form the reference design for Google Data Centers. Implement solutions that lead to fast, cost effective construction and delivery.
- Drive required cross-functional collaboration with other teams for the adoption of latest architecture into data center designs.
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.