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Google Hiring for Hardware Power Test Engineer at Sunnyvale, CA Full Time
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience.
- 1 year of experience with oscilloscopes, power, AC/DC electronic loads.
- 1 year of experience working in a hardware research and development lab environment.
- 1 year of experience in testing automation (e.g., Python or similar scripting language).
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience working with one or more of the following: DC-DC converters, AC power supplies, AC-DC rectifiers, AC High voltage, power redundancy and fail-over.
- Knowledge in bench level Hardware validation using test equipment.
- Experience with one or more scripting language for test automation.
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.
Behind everything our users see online is the architecture built by the Technical Infrastructure team to keep it operating. From developing and maintaining our data centers to building the next generation of Google platforms, we make Google’s product portfolio possible.
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 characterization, validation, and qualification on PCBA’s and rack’s power distribution network (e.g., AC-DC, VR, power integrity).
- Work with minimal guidance to troubleshoot and root cause electrical component level defects and design issues.
- Develop test procedures for general qualification and targeted testing of DUTs using automated/scripted tests as part of a larger automation suite.
- Collect and analyze aggregated data to enable data driven engineering decisions during Hardware R&D, report on findings, reduce test data, and investigate test outcomes thoroughly down to a hardware interface or component level.
- Work with designers and other diagnostics development teams to understand project architectures and system components, as well as support with debug, component validation, and failure analysis of released products.
Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google’s EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.
