Hardware Test Engineer
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 5 years of experience with Test Management (e.g., test methodologies, planning, execution, and reporting) in a data center environment or experience with hardware testing, process validation, or software testing.
- Experience with systems integration and validation processes.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience with process or workflow definition and development in a data center environment.
- Experience with hardware testing, process validation, or software testing.
- Knowledge of hardware architecture design and component interactions, including knowledge of how design choices affect components and systems, standards and protocols, and the ability to navigate trade-offs.
- Knowledge of hardware engineering including design, development, and testing of physical components of a computer/device, and how to interact with the software.
- Knowledge of debugging skills along with using industry standard simulations and debug tools.
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 Engineer in Google’s Cloud Supply Chain and Operations (CSCO) team, you will define and develop Process Workflows for the next generation of primarily L10/L11 systems. The main responsibility is to own the creation of data center process workflows across a portfolio of projects, ranging from network switches to machine learning pods. The primary goal is to reduce time and cost for L10/L11 installation, maintenance, and repairs.
In order to achieve the goal, you will interface with stakeholders from data center, manufacturing, software, and product design to optimize and outline data center process workflows. You will influence new operational workflows through technical insights that accelerate deployment, maintenance, modification, and decommissioning of new products. You will collaborate with a sister team of Hardware and Software Test Engineers to build in-house competence in Design for Operations.
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 benefits at Google.
Responsibilities
- Create technical requirements that span the journey of an L10/L11 system from the data center loading dock to installation to production to decommissioning, such that they can be thoroughly validated.
- Author detailed, product tailored, and verifiable process workflows based on data center centric insights into product design, software tools, and process workflows.
- Create, modify, or deprecate process workflows that reflect changes to the manner in which the product is designed to be transported, assembled, repaired, and decommissioned.
- Ensure on time delivery of process workflows while gathering critical data and documenting the NPI life cycle (installation, repair, decommissioning, etc.).
- Utilize established channels to communicate test updates, project trade-offs, technical recommendations, and escalations.
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