Senior Hardware Engineering Manager, Hardware Innovation

About The Job

Be part of a team that pushes boundaries, developing custom silicon solutions that power the future of Google's direct-to-consumer products. You'll contribute to the innovation behind products loved by millions worldwide. Your expertise will shape the next generation of hardware experiences, delivering unparalleled performance, efficiency, and integration.

As a part of the Emergent AI Infrastructure team, you will build the next-generation of on-prem AI infrastructure to bring the best of Google to empower frontier model and AI solution builders to advance the capabilities for AI around the world. As a part of this team, your role will involve exposure to fully integrated AI infrastructure systems, from hardware to software design and workload management.

In this role, you will build AI clusters using the latest technologies for AI acceleration and cluster interconnects and networking. You will build the AI infrastructure for the future and brand new products rather than just evolving an existing one.

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 team behind Google's groundbreaking innovations, empowering the development of our 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

• Identify flaws and issues with hardware components by analyzing key issues, risks, or trade-offs, and address new hardware failures by driving corrective solutions.
• Manage the hardware and software innovation group responsible for adapting and creating hardware and software for new emergent AI products in close collaboration with other hardware and software teams in cloud.
• Manage and mentor a team of engineers, providing guidance and fostering professional development.
• Co-ordinate distributed operations across the US, Asia, and Europe, guiding engineers as they collaborate across continents to build a brand-new AI infrastructure product.
• Collaborate cross-functionally by partnering with tech leads, tech lead managers, and engineering managers across the organization to deliver results.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience working in a hardware systems design environment.
• 5 years of experience managing an engineering team.
• Experience with power circuit design and signal integrity.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master’s degree or PhD in Electrical, Mechanical or Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent in a related technical field.
• 7 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization.
• 5 years of experience leading a team of engineers to build AI infrastructure.
• 5 years of experience building or operating AI accelerator hardware or advanced AI accelerator interconnect networks.

Benefits

In accordance with Washington state law, we are highlighting our comprehensive benefits package, which is available to all eligible US based employees. Benefits for this role include:

• Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
• Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
• Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
• Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance
• Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
• Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
• Holidays: 13 paid days per year

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Sunnyvale, CA, USA; Kirkland, WA, USA.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form .