Senior Hardware Validation Engineer, Servers and Compute, Platforms
Job Summary
Job Description
- Bachelor's degree in relevant field
- 4+ years experience in hardware systems design/testing
- Experience with lab equipment (scopes, BERTs, analyzers)
- Experience with servers and compute platform architecture
- High-speed interface (PCIe, DDR) knowledge
- Master's or PhD in relevant field
- Technical leadership experience
- Scripting and automation experience
- System-level architecture understanding of server products
6 skills required
Job Details
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 4 years of experience working in hardware systems design and testing, or 3 years of experience with an advanced degree.
- Experience with lab equipment like scopes, BERTs and analyzers.
- Experience with servers and compute platform architecture.
Preferred qualifications:
- Master's degree or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics, or a related field.
- 1 year of experience in technical leadership.
- Experience collecting and organizing data to reproduce results and explain what happened, enabling quick, accurate failure analysis from suppliers where needed.
- Experience using scripting and automation to execute test algorithms, and then analyze results.
- Understanding of high speed transceiver interfaces like PCIe (physical, DLL and transaction layer), and memory interfaces like DDR4/DDR5 as well as the requirements to test them.
- Understanding of the system-level architecture of server products.
About the job
Platforms Infrastructure Engineering designs, builds and collaborates on the hardware, software and networking technologies that power all of Google's services. As a Hardware Qualification Engineer in Google's design and validation team, you will qualify new components, servers, storage devices and specialized machine learning hardware for Google's data centers, ensuring they meet Google's stringent requirements for performance, security, reliability, and features.
As a Hardware Validation Engineer, you will qualify new servers and specialized hardware for Google's data centers.
Google's custom-designed machines make up one of the largest and most powerful computing infrastructures in the world. The Hardware Qualification team ensures that this equipment operates properly electrically, functions as intended, meets quality requirements and exhibits the level of reliability expected by customers. You will work within our lab environments, planning for and executing the required testing at scale and in an effective way. Working with design engineers, you will give inputs on designs to improve our hardware until you're sure it meets Google's standards of quality, reliability, and security.
We prioritize security, efficiency, and reliability across everything we do - from developing our latest TPUs to running a global network, while driving towards shaping the future of hyperscale computing. Our global impact spans software and hardware, including Google Cloud’s Vertex AI, the leading AI platform for bringing Gemini models to enterprise customers.
Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about .
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 Google's requirements.
- Use scopes, protocol analyzers, Bit Error Rate Tester (BERT) and other lab equipment to collect high precision data. Organize data and incorporate learnings to maintain and improve the qualification process.
- Validate high speed interfaces like PCIe Gen 5/6 and DDR5, running electrical and protocol compliance testing and performing interoperability testing.
- Collaborate with Original Device Manufacturing (ODM)/Joint Development Manufacturing (JDM) to ensure that the validation is up to Google standards.
- Communicate status updates to cross-functional teams and leadership. Report bugs and drive corrective action where needed with external suppliers and internal development teams.
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