QualificationsLaboratory experienceDebuggingBachelor’s degreeMaster’s degree
Preferred qualifications:
Master’s degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
Experience collecting and organizing data to reproduce and understand results.
Understanding of memory interfaces like DDR4/DDR5 and requirements to test them.
Understanding of server products (e.g., physical, functional, logical, mechanical, electrical, software, thermal, etc.).
Knowledge of the appropriate data to collect to facilitate quick, accurate failure analysis from vendors.
Ability to use scripting and automation to execute test algorithms and analyze results.
About the job
Google’s custom-designed machines make up one of the largest and most powerful computing infrastructures in the world. The Hardware Testing Engineering team ensures that this cutting-edge equipment is reliable. In the R&D lab, you design test equipment for prototypes of our machinery and develop the protocols used to scale these tests for the entire global team. Working closely with design engineers, you give input on designs to improve our hardware until you’re sure it meets Google’s standards of quality and reliability.
With your technical expertise, you create test plans for highly complex platforms (e.g., validating the interaction of multiple pieces of equipment at the networking and subsystem levels), and using your deep knowledge of component design characteristics, you diagnose highly complex hardware or software issues.
In this role, you will qualify servers and specialized hardware for Google’s data centers.
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
Create test plans and coordinate resources across test environments.
Perform electrical, functional, performance, and reliability testing for server products. Analyze results to ensure that they meet requirements.
Report bugs and drive corrective action where needed with external suppliers and internal development teams.
Maintain and improve the qualification process.
Work with Original Design Manufacturers/Joint Design Manufacturers to ensure testing to standards.
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