Hardware Test and Qualification Engineer, Cable Qualification

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Google welcomes people with disabilities.

Due to the current health crisis related to COVID-19 and the escalating visa/travel restrictions in place, we’re currently unable to extend offers to anyone who cannot work from Taiwan due to lockdown visa/travel restrictions, or other restrictive measures until further notice. Consequently, we will be prioritizing candidates who can start in this location by set date as expected. We’re keeping the situation under review and would adjust our position should the restrictive measures be removed later on.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of hardware/firmware testing experience in a research/development environment.
• Experience debugging and triaging software and infrastructure test failures, and experience writing test plans.
• Experience in characterizing components over a population using statistical analysis.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master’s Degree.
• Experience with bash or Python.
• Experience in one or more of the following: high volume manufacturing quality assurance, reliability, automated testing.
• Design experience or the ability to propose a fix to design failures.
• Knowledge of servers, networking, hard drives, or firmware and knowledge of relevant diagnostics, performance tests, or Linux and low-level software.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, and passion for testing hardware and a desire for continuous improvement and optimization of the qualification processes.

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.

As a Hardware Test and Qualification Engineer, you will join Google’s design and test team. You will focus on cable/system qualification for Google’s data centers, ensuring they meet Google’s stringent requirements for performance, security, reliability, and features.

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

• Review product designs and develop a test plan to help identify issues.
• Run tests and test scripts for system and component quals. Gather data, analyze results, and provide pass/fail reports.
• Collaborate with Test Development Software Engineers to debug and triage test failures.
• Identify improvements to tests, diagnostics, and automation. Contribute to functional requirements for qualification software tools.
• Improve the qualification process to reduce time for testing and results reporting. Increase capacity and throughput of qualification processes.

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 this form .