Google Looking For Platform Hardware Manager, Nest at Mountain View, CA Full Time

Minimum qualifications:
8 years of experience in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science and/or Mechanical Engineering.

Domain experience in one or more of these areas: Fabric, Memory, Caches, Security, Debug and Trace, Test, Interfaces, Camera, Video, Display, CPU, GPU, DSP.

People management experience, managing a team and achieving goals.

Preferred qualifications:
Demonstrated ability and experience to manage complex projects.

Independent, highly motivated, with excellent organizational skills.

Excellent communication skills both verbal and written.

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.

Google Nest engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. As a member of an extraordinarily creative, motivated and talented team, you develop new products that are used by millions of people. We need our engineers to be versatile and passionate to take on new problems as we continue to push technology forward.

The Platform Hardware team is part of the Nest Hardware organization responsible for the design and development of the hardware platforms for all Nest NPI products.

Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. Our Devices & Services team combines the best of Google AI, Software, and Hardware to create radically helpful experiences for users. We research, design, and develop new technologies and hardware to make our user’s interaction with computing faster, seamless, and more powerful. Whether finding new ways to capture and sense the world around us, advancing form factors, or improving interaction methods, the Devices & Services team is making people’s lives better through technology.

Responsibilities

Manage a team of electrical engineers to deliver hardware platform designs for enabling development of award-winning and market-leading consumer devices addressing a broad spectrum of applications and features, adapting to an ever-changing technology landscape.

Ensure hardware platforms are of the highest quality and delivered on-time to meet dynamic development timelines by providing technical oversight of their design and development.

Grow and develop a high-performing team while ensuring individuals’ success and development through clear expectations, timely feedback, challenging assignments, and growth opportunities.

Lead the team to collaborate with domain experts and cross-functional partners on defining new product system requirements, next-generation hardware architecture, and long-term strategies and directions.

Explore new technologies, next-generation chip architectures, and vendor roadmaps, and assess their feasibility.

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