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Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering, a related degree, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience with accelerator architectures and data center workloads.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience with data center product hardware and system design.
• Understanding of how to characterize CPU, Memory and peripheral devices quality over a large population using statistical analysis. Data collection skills to facilitate quick, accurate failure analysis from the vendor.
• Ability to start full-time role in 2025.

About the Job

Be part of a team that pushes boundaries, developing custom silicon solutions that power the future of Google's direct-to-consumer products. You'll contribute to the innovation behind products loved by millions worldwide. Your expertise will shape the next generation of hardware experiences, delivering unparalleled performance, efficiency, and integration.

As a Server Qualification Engineer, you will qualify new servers and specialized hardware for Google's data centers.

The Hardware Testing Engineering team ensures that equipment is reliable. In the Research and Development (R&D) lab, you will plan for and execute effective tests for the entire global team. Working closely with design engineers, you will give input on designs to improve our hardware until you're sure it meets Google's standards of quality, reliability, and security.

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

• Perform electrical, functional, reliability, and performance tests to ensure hardware solutions meet Google's requirements.
• Report bugs and drive corrective action where needed with external suppliers or internal development teams. Maintain and improve the qualification process.
• Work with key partners to ensure testing to meet Google standards.
• Use common interface (e.g., PCIe/CXL/Memory/I2C/I3C/SPI/eSPI), test methodology, and tool development. Participate in component (e.g., Network, Storage, GPU, memory), performance evaluation, and test development.
• Utilize cross-platform x86/ARM/GPU validation scripts and test framework scripts (e.g., Python, shell script).