Hardware Power Test Engineer
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 2 years of experience working in a power electronics technical environment, or 1 year of experience with an advanced degree.
Preferred qualifications:
- Master's degree or PhD in Electrical Engineering or a related field.
- Experience in power measurement equipment such as oscilloscopes, programmable power supplies, spectrum analyzers, DMMs and function generators.
- Experience in one or more scripting languages (e.g., Python) for test automation, data collection, and analysis.
- Knowledge of one or more of the following: DC-DC converters, open compute power architecture, SoC power architecture, and component-/tray-/rack-level power management and optimization.
- Knowledge of power testing methodologies and bench level hardware validation using test equipment.
About the job
Google's mission is to organize information and make it universally accessible and useful. The Hardware team researches, designs, and develops new technologies and hardware to make user's interaction with computing seamless.
As a Hardware Test Engineer, you will be supporting a team of hardware board and power designers who are responsible for prototype bring-up, validation, qualification, and failure analysis of server-related technologies such as CPU, DDR memory, storages, onboard power and high-speed interconnects. You will also be responsible for liaison between hardware engineering teams and the lab team to ensure lab resources are accounted for.
Responsibilities
- Collect and analyze aggregated data to enable data driven engineering decisions during hardware research and development, report on findings, reduce test data, and investigate test outcomes.
- Work with hardware designers and other diagnostics development teams to understand new project architectures and system components to implement support needed for test and debug efforts.
- Define, execute, and document electrical characterization, validation, and qualification of on board system level power distribution network, covering from the power converter design to ASIC power integrity validation.
- Troubleshoot electrical component level defects and design issues, support design engineers with debug, component validation, and failure analysis of released products.
- Develop test procedures for general qualification and testing using automated/scripted tests as part of an automation suite.
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