Power Engineer, Platforms Engineering
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 2 years of experience working in power converter design including DC/DC converter design, board bring up, and debugging, or 1 year of experience with an advanced degree.
Preferred qualifications:
- Master's degree or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics, or a related field.
- Experience in data center power delivery system design
- Experience with analyzing and organizing data.
- Knowledge of power electronics fundamentals and various power conversion designs for data center power delivery.
- Knowledge of power converter modeling and simulation.
About the job
As a Power Engineer in Technical Infrastructure, you will play a key role in the development of one of the world's fastest growing computing infrastructures. You will work as part of a team to deliver innovative power solutions for point of load application. Your objective will be to design, analyze, optimize and implement board, chip level power topologies and control for large-scale point of load application including ASICs, FPGAs, and processors.
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.
The US base salary range for this full-time position is $122,000-$178,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target salaries for the position across all US locations. 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.
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Responsibilities
- Innovate and design on board power conversion specifications and solutions. Analyze performance, cost, reliability, and availability trade-offs.
- Lead projects that involve new technologies or new uses of multiple existing technologies.
- Partner with power industry leaders to lead evaluation and adoption of the most compelling cutting edge technologies.
- Engage cross-functionally to ensure successful roll-out, testing, and complete validation.
- Provide technical leadership and direction while troubleshooting complex system level power issues.
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