Hardware Engineering Manager, DC Power, Google Cloud

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Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 years of experience with data center class hardware systems development with a focus on power.
• 3 years of management experience.
  
  

Preferred qualifications:

• Master’s or PhD degree in Electrical Engineering or in a related field.
• 5 years of experience in system design leadership and/or hardware team management.
• Experience solving complex DC power delivery issues and technical innovation.
• Experience leading high performance teams for breakthrough results. Strong leader capable of attracting and motivating teams.
• Exceptional analytical and organizational skills, coupled with a well-focused attention to detail.
• Good Communication skills and ability to work with and lead cross-functional project teams effectively.
  
  

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.

As an Engineering Manager with a focus on DC Power, you and your team will work on hardware systems projects to craft the solutions for data center deployments. You will work with Product teams to ensure that their goals are met with your team’s systems. You will work closely with teams to ensure proper verification of features in the data center systems, you will also ensure designs are manufacturable and ready for volume production, and support systems that are deployed in the data center.

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

• Build and lead the Power, Thermal, Mechanical engineering teams that consists of hardware power, thermal, mechanical engineers.
• Understand technology roadmaps and make sure the team is well positioned to support programs. Drive priorities and assignments for the team members.
• Gather requirements, with the larger team to define high level architecture, collaborate with engineers across the team on design. Review and approve the detailed designs.
• Work closely with the Technical Program Manager team to create program plans and then provide technical leadership and direction on project development.
• Work closely with Manufacturing, Product, and Deployment teams to produce designs and field support.
  
  

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