Senior Staff Data Center Engineer, Mechanical

About the job

Our thirst for technology is a part of everything we do. The Data Center Engineering team takes the physical design of our data centers into the future. Our lab mirrors a research and development department -- cutting-edge strategies are born, tested and tested again. Along with a team of great minds, you take on complex topics like how we use power or how to run state-of-the-art, environmentally-friendly facilities. You're a visionary who optimizes for efficiencies and never stops seeking improvements -- even small changes that can make a huge impact. You generate ideas, communicate recommendations to senior-level executives and drive implementation alongside facilities technicians.

With your technical expertise, you ensure compliance with codes and standards, develop infrastructure improvements and serve as an expert in your specialty (e.g., cooling, electrical).

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.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with operations and design team to verify the data center (DC) mechanical designs starting from master planning to project conception to IFC for new DC projects build outs and major infrastructure upgrades.
• Involve in new technology research and department (R&D) and project insertions through collaboration with the core engineering teams during the development.
• Review system level concept and schematics designs and verify through to detail designs to assure requirements are met.
• Collaborate with Data center Technology Systems (DCTS) for program level mechanical system issues during project design phase, identify and resolve issues with the cross-functional program teams.
• Identify global program wide issues that impact multiple projects and help determine a path forward as well as act as the escalation path for field issues.

Qualifications

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 12 years of experience in mission critical facility design and construction environments.
• Experience in mechanical infrastructure.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree in Engineering, Business, a related technical field.
• Professional Engineering (PE) license.
• Experience in designing complex modular building scale assemblies, with an understanding of mechanical tolerances and tolerance analysis.
• Experience in design, construction, and commissioning of mechanical cooling plants, fire suppression systems, fuel oil systems, domestic water systems, and sanitary sewer systems in mission critical facility design and construction environment.
• Understanding of facility cooling and related infrastructure systems for data centers or equivalent critical, industrial automation, controls systems design and stack integration
• Knowledge of mechanical engineering and design principles in the areas of design for medium-scale production, structural beams/elements, international building codes, and of construction safety procedures