Hardware System Engineer

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience in signal and power integrity simulation, validation of system boards, including memory, and high-speed communication interfaces.
• Experience with electromagnetic (EM) field and transmission line theory.
• Experience with industry SI simulation and lab tools (e.g., Ansys HFSS, SIwave, Designer, Cadence Sigrity tools, ADS, Hspice, TDR, VNA, probe station, and real-time scope).
  

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics, or a related field.
• Experience working in a test automation and scripting technical environment.
• Experience with PCB, connector and flexes technologies, as well as materials and component selection.
• Experience with MIPI, USB, DP, DDR, UFS standards, and direct lab.
• Knowledge and understanding of Android, Linux system, programming capability of I/O commands.
  

About The Job

Our computational challenges are so big, complex and unique we can't just purchase off-the-shelf hardware, we've got to make it ourselves. Your 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. You develop from the lowest levels of circuit design to large system design and see those systems 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.

Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. Our Devices & Services team combines the best of Google AI, Software, and Hardware to create radically helpful experiences for users. We research, design, and develop new technologies and hardware to make our user's interaction with computing faster, seamless, and more powerful. Whether finding new ways to capture and sense the world around us, advancing form factors, or improving interaction methods, the Devices & Services team is making people's lives better through technology.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $102,000-$150,000 + 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.

Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google .

Responsibilities

• Analyze performance or requirements of hardware components, use industry appropriate tools to develop and optimize hardware component designs against requirements, and acknowledge and consider cross-functional design constraints.
• Document hardware design, implementation, or test/validation results throughout the product life-cycle.
• Participate in all stages of next generation consumer product development. Own Signal Integrity (SI) and Power Integrity (PI) of product and its sub-component development.
• Drive solutions for SI/PI issues with design engineers, PCB designers, and the system team and run analysis on performance and cost.
• Work on design validations of high-speed interfaces (e.g., MIPI, USB, DP) and issue analysis.