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Staff Hardware Engineer, Electrical Engineering Design, Google Cloud

Google • Electrical & Electronic Engineering • Digital Media • Bachelor's Degree • 1 day ago

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Salary

≈ $180k – $328k per year (Estimated)

Location

In office (Sunnyvale)

Seniority

Staff · 8+ years exp

Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 23, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 22, 2026. Google scores B on the Alion truth index.

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Google is an American technology company founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin and now the principal subsidiary of Alphabet, headquartered in Mountain View, California. It operates the world's dominant search engine and the advertising system built around it, along with YouTube, Android, Chrome, Gmail, Maps, Workspace and Google Cloud, reaching billions of users across nearly every internet-connected market. The company designs its own silicon in the Tensor Processing Unit line, develops the Gemini foundation models through Google DeepMind, and derives most of its revenue from advertising while cloud has become its fastest growing segment.

google.com • HQ: Mountain View, United States • Digital Media • Marketing Analytics & Attribution • Streaming & OTT Platforms • Consumer Internet Groups • Foundation Models • Operating Systems • Cloud Platforms (IaaS & PaaS) • Video & Photo Sharing • Advertising • Search Engines • 11-50 employees • Est. 1998

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Backed by Y Combinator, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Union Square Ventures

About the job

Our Platforms Infrastructure Engineering team designs and builds the

hardware and software technologies that power all of Google's services. Our computational challenges are complex and unique, enabled by cutting-edge custom hardware designed and made in-house. As a hardware engineer, you will design and build the systems that are the heart of the world's largest and most powerful computing infrastructure. You will see those systems from concept all the way through to high-volume manufacturing. Your work has the potential to shape the machinery that goes into our cutting-edge data centers, affecting millions of Google users.Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $188000 - $274000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits

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Responsibilities

Drive end-to-end system architecture, technology roadmap, and board-level design for next-generation platforms, establishing technical direction and design standards across programs.
Lead multi-disciplinary trade-off analyses across system, mechanical, thermal, and PCB layout teams to define high-density interconnect strategy, stackup architecture, and complex routing guidelines.
Architect power delivery networks (PDN) and high-speed signal pathways in partnership with SI/PI experts, establishing guidelines that ensure performance at hyperscale.
Oversee lab validation strategy, system bring-up, and root-cause analysis for critical architectural issues, mentoring engineering teams through complex debugging.
Lead cross-functional engineering initiatives with Silicon, Firmware, Software, Thermal, Mechanical, and Operations teams to deliver cohesive, scalable infrastructure solutions. Influence manufacturing and vendor roadmaps to optimize Design for Manufacturing (DFM) and Design for Test (DFT) for high-volume, enterprise-grade deployments.

Qualifications

Minimum qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
6 years of experience working on electrical engineering design.
3 years of experience in technical leadership.
Experience with Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) Hardware platforms, including Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) and Tensor Processing Units (TPUs).

Preferred qualifications:

PhD degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
8 years of experience working on board design, system architecture, and electrical engineering design.
Experience with data center engineering, AI/ML, server, storage and networking products.
Experience in solving system issues, technical innovation and drive technical roadmap.
Ability to collect and organize details to reproduce results and explain findings.

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