# Senior Test Engineer, Project Suncatcher, Google Cloud

About the job As a Manufacturing Test Lead on the Project Suncatcher team, Google’s initiative to harness abundant solar energy and overcome terrestrial power and thermal scaling limits via space-based, solar-powered data centers, you will drive the technical strategy and execution for our Manufacturing Test Development programs, delivering Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) hardware into low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite constellations. You will be responsible for defining the overarching test strategy, determining both what to test and how to test it for each product. This key role involves architecting and designing tester hardware and software, creating comprehensive documentation including end-to-end test strategies and detailed test plans. Leveraging your deep understanding of Contract Manufacturer (CM) and Joint Development Manufacturer (JDM) environments, you will guide cross-functional test development teams to deliver robust, timely, and highly controlled test solutions to our partner factories, ensuring our advanced machine learning hardware is always flight ready. As the first line of defense for Google Cloud hardware build quality, the Manufacturing Test Solutions (MTS) team a

- **Id**: 4068578
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/google-senior-test-engineer-project-suncatcher-google-cloud>
- **Role**: QA
- **Role family**: QA
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Sunnyvale, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-11T11:09:05Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-11
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T12:30:52Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
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- **Benefits**: Equity
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Advertising, Cloud Platforms (IaaS & PaaS), Operating Systems, Video & Photo Sharing

## Company

- **Id**: 82
- **Name**: Google
- **Domain**: google.com
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- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Career site

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 78
- **Open postings**: 131
- **Ghost share**: 0.038
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- **Repost share**: 0.038
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 30
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **GCP** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **TPU** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: yes

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-11T12:30:52Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 8,371 · green card filings: 3; Filings 12m: 8371

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- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 30
- **Reasons**: conf:0, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T13:22:45Z

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