Senior Power Engineer, Platforms Engineering

Our Platforms Team designs and builds the hardware, software and networking technologies that power all of Google’s services. As a Hardware Engineer, you design and build the systems that are the heart of the world’s largest and most powerful computing infrastructure.

• 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 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

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics, a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• 4 years of experience working with power converter design including DC/DC converter design and board bring up and debugging
• Preferred qualifications: Master’s degree or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics, or a related field
• 1 year of experience in technical leadership
• Experience in power 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

• 401(k) matching
• Health insurance
• Equity
• Bonus opportunities
• Stock options
• Paid time off
• Retirement plan

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