Product Safety Test Engineer, Platforms
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Physics, or a specialized field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 1 year of experience working in a product safety testing, power electronics, or data center hardware engineering environment.
Preferred qualifications:
- Master's degree or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics, or a related field.
- Knowledge and application of IEC/UL 62368-1 standards.
- Familiarity with NFPA 70E for managing high-voltage risks.
- Familiarity with lab diagnostic tools, such as oscilloscopes, digital multimeters (DMM), data acquisition units, and spectrum analyzers.
- Ability to lead safety evaluations for multi-layered systems.
About the job
To safeguard Google's users and ensure innovation never comes at the cost of well-being, we test and validate the physical and operational safety of our products. We achieve this through comprehensive product risk characterization and assessment—a multi-step process evaluating equipment, devices, and systems across their entire lifecycle. By assessing the probability of a product causing personal injury or property damage, we directly inform and direct the design of essential safeguards that protect people from safety hazards.
As a Product Safety Test Engineer, you will be the final line of defense in ensuring our high-power data center hardware is safe, reliable, and compliant.You will be designing and executing test plans for next-generation power systems. You will bridge the gap between traditional electrical safety and modern automated testing, requiring an understanding of how high-voltage hardware interacts with software-defined environments.
The AI and Infrastructure team is redefining what’s possible. We empower Google customers with breakthrough capabilities and insights by delivering AI and Infrastructure at unparalleled scale, efficiency, reliability and velocity. Our customers include Googlers, Google Cloud customers, and billions of Google users worldwide.
We're the driving force behind Google's groundbreaking innovations, empowering the development of our cutting-edge AI models, delivering unparalleled computing power to global services, and providing the essential platforms that enable developers to build the future. From software to hardware our teams are shaping the future of world-leading hyperscale computing, with key teams working on the development of our TPUs, Vertex AI for Google Cloud, Google Global Networking, Data Center operations, systems research, and much more.
The US base salary range for this full-time position is $108,000-$153,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.
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
- Execute and oversee safety testing for three-phase AC (480V) and High-Voltage DC (HVDC) systems. Conduct Hipot, grounding continuity, and abnormal consistency tests on high-current power shelves and rack-level distribution.
- Design and deploy automated test scripts (Python/Bash) to drive hardware testing. Automate fault-injection sequences and data collection to improve test coverage and engineering efficiency.
- Manage and troubleshoot local lab networking environments, utilizing standard management protocols such as Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) for monitoring and Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) for out-of-band hardware management.
- Translate regulatory requirements into actionable test plans for liquid-cooled and air-cooled high-density racks.
- Partner with Design Teams during early-stage prototyping to identify risks. Lead Root Cause Analysis (RCA) for safety-related failures and influence hardware design to mitigate arc-flash and thermal runaway risks.
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