Senior Hardware Validation Engineer, Servers, Compute, Google Cloud
Sunnyvale, CA
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 4 years of experience working in board level design and testing, or 3 years of experience with an advanced degree.
- Experience with lab equipment like scopes, BERTs and analyzers.
- Experience with servers and compute platform architecture.
Preferred qualifications:
- Master's or PhD degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics, or a related field.
- Experience managing teams and providing technical leadership for complex programs.
- Experience in collecting and organizing data to reproduce results and explain what happened.
- System-level understanding of server products including physical, functional, logical, mechanical, electrical, software, thermal and cooling.
- Understanding of high speed transceiver interfaces like PCIe (physical, DLL and transaction layer), and memory interfaces like DDR4/DDR5 as well as the requirements to test them.
- Ability to use scripting and automation to execute test algorithms and analyze results.
About the job
As a Hardware Validation Engineer, you will qualify new servers and specialized hardware for Google's data centers.
Google's custom-designed machines make up one of the hyperscale computing infrastructures in the world. The Hardware Qualification team ensures that this cutting-edge equipment operates electrically, functions as intended, meets quality requirements, and exhibits the level of reliability expected by customers. You will work within our lab environments, planning for and executing the required testing at scale and in an effective way. Working closely with design engineers, you will give inputs on designs to improve our hardware until you are sure it meets Google's standards of quality, reliability, and security.
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 the driving force behind Google's groundbreaking innovations, empowering the development of our cutting-edge 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.
Responsibilities
- Create test plans, coordinate resources, and communicate status updates to cross-functional teams and leadership.
- Perform electrical, functional, performance, and reliability testing for server products. Analyze results and incorporate learnings to maintain and improve the qualification process.
- Use scopes, protocol analyzers, bit error rate tests (BERTs), and other lab equipment to collect high precision data and validate high speed interfaces like PCIe Gen 5/6 and DDR5.
- Collaborate with ODMs/JDMs to ensure that the validation is up to Google standards.
- Report bugs and drive corrective action where needed with external suppliers and internal development teams.
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.
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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.