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Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Physics or equivalent practical experience.
• 1 year of experience working in mechanical/electrical design.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master’s degree in Engineering, or equivalent.
• Experience in representing stakeholders during executive-level planning and prioritization discussions.
• Ability to define strategy, drive execution and resolve conflicts along with excellent leadership skills.
• Excellent communication and multi-tasking skills and ability to work in a fluid environment.
• Experience as a product designer of server or network racks.

About the Job

Google’s Cloud Supply Chain and Operations (CSCO) team is seeking a Hardware Design Engineer.In this role, you will own strategy and drive execution across a portfolio of projects, ranging from network switches to machine learning pods. The goal is to reduce time and cost for platform deployment, maintenance, and repairs.

In order to achieve the goal, as the Hardware Design Engineer you will interface with stakeholders from data center, manufacturing, and product design to define design for operations requirements. You will influence new platform architectures through insights, design changes, and trade off analyses.

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.

Responsibilities

• Identify risks of the mechanical/electrical design to enabling deployment and minimize downtime during repairs.
• Mitigate the serviceability risks through collaboration with partners in Design, Manufacturing, and Datacenter.
• Define the trade-offs between design and serviceability to enable decisions.
• Oversee the validation and execution of the mechanical design requirements, from ideation to production.