Power Engineer, Platforms Engineering

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

• 4 years of experience working in power converter design including DC/DC converter design and board bring up and debugging, or 3 years of experience with an advanced degree.

• Experience with data center power delivery system design.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD in Power Electronics, or a related discipline.

• Experience in power system design and validation.

• Experience with analyzing and organizing data.

• Knowledge of power electronics fundamentals and various power conversion technologies for data center power delivery.

• Knowledge of power converter modeling and simulation.

About the job

Our computational challenges are so big, complex and unique we can't just purchase off-the-shelf hardware, we've got to make it ourselves. Your team designs and builds the hardware, software and networking technologies that power all of Google's services. As a Hardware Engineer, you design and build the systems that are the heart of the world's largest and most powerful computing infrastructure. You develop from the lowest levels of circuit design to large system design and see those systems 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.

With your technical expertise, you lead projects in multiple areas of expertise (i.e., engineering domains or systems) within a data center facility, including construction and equipment installation/troubleshooting/debugging with vendors.

Behind everything our users see online is the architecture built by the Technical Infrastructure team to keep it running. From developing and maintaining our data centers to building the next generation of Google platforms, we make Google's product portfolio possible. We're proud to be our engineers' engineers and love voiding warranties by taking things apart so we can rebuild them. We keep our networks up and running, ensuring our users have the best and fastest experience possible.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $142,000-$211,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations. 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.

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Responsibilities

• Innovate and design onboard DC/DC power conversion specifications and solutions (i.e., hotswaps, single-phase/multi-phase voltage regulators, LDOs, intermediate bus converters). Analyze performance, cost, reliability, and availability trade-offs.

• Drive cross-functional collaboration with system architects, chip designers, hardware electrical engineering/Systems Integrator, hardware qualifications, mechanical and thermal, etc.

• Lead projects that involve new technologies or new uses of multiple existing technologies.

• Partner with power industry leaders to lead evaluation and adoption of the most compelling technologies.

• Engage cross-functionally to ensure successful roll-out, testing and complete validation. Provide technical leadership and direction while troubleshooting complex system level power delivery issues.

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