Senior ECAD Library Engineer, Platforms Infrastructure

Google

Sunnyvale, CA

JOB DETAILS
JOB TYPE
Full-time, Employee
SKILLS
Architectural Library, Ball Grid Array (BGA), Bridge Building, Cadence, Command Line, Computer Engineering, DNA, Electrical Engineering, Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO), Git, Hardware Description Language, Hardware Design, IPC Standards, Library and Information Science, Manufacturing, Manufacturing Assembly, Microsoft Windows Operating System, Network Administration/Management, Network Architecture/Engineering, PCB (Printed Circuit Board) Manufacturing, Physics, Printed Circuit Board (PCB) Layout, Printed Circuit Board Assembly (PCBA), Printed Circuit Board Design, Python Programming/Scripting Language, Schematics, Software Design, Source Code/Configuration Management (SCM), System Architecture
LOCATION
Sunnyvale, CA
POSTED
30+ days ago

Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 4 years of experience developing libraries for Cadence schematic and PCB design software (e.g., Concept HDL, Allegro).
  • Experience with STEP file integration into the library.
  • Experience developing symbols and footprints for BGA packages, high-density connector, and with alt symbols and alt footprints.
  • Experience working within IPC standards for padstacks, footprints, and naming conventions.
  • Experience with DFx principles for PCB manufacturing, assembly, and test.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Experience with PCB Layout.
  • Experience with Allegro SKILL, Python, and Windows command line programming.
  • Experience with Git for revision control.

About the job

As an ECAD Librarian, you will manage the Digital Network Architecture (DNA) of our hardware, building and organizing the libraries that allow our engineers to design the world’s most powerful computing infrastructure. From large Ball Grid Array (BGA) packages to interconnects, you will ensure that every component is built for precision, manufacturability, and global scale.In this role, you will bridge the gap between Electrical Engineering, Printed Circuit Board Layout, and Manufacturing. You will architect a library system that supports seamless routing and hardware lifecycles. Your work ensures that Google’s custom-built servers move from concept to high-volume manufacturing, directly impacting the infrastructure that powers services for millions of users.

Our Platforms Infrastructure Engineering team designs and builds thehardware and software technologies that power all of Google's services. Our computational challenges are complex and unique, enabled by cutting-edge custom hardware designed and made in-house. As a hardware engineer, you will design and build the systems that are the heart of the world's largest and most powerful computing infrastructure. You will see those systems from concept all the way through to high-volume manufacturing. Your work has the potential to shape the machinery that goes into our cutting-edge data centers, affecting millions of Google users.Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. US: $159000 - $231000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + bonus + equity + benefitsLearn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

  • Manage the library, build footprints and symbols, organize Part Table File (PTF) tables, and continually improve the library setup and structure.
  • Support Electrical Engineering and PCB layout based on the view point of the library such as pin/part arrangement for schematic drawing, reasonable routing, and package keepout.
  • Work with manufacturing and component engineers to create common footprints for non-identical parts.
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.

About the Company

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Google

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.

Learn more about our hiring process.

COMPANY SIZE
10,000 employees or more
INDUSTRY
Computer Software
EMPLOYEE BENEFITS
Paid Sick Days, Performance Bonus, Professional Development, 401K, Stock Options, Employee Events, Retirement / Pension Plans, Tuition Reimbursement, Work From Home, Life Insurance, On Site Cafeteria
FOUNDED
1998
WEBSITE
https://goo.gle/4dbno6V