Manufacturing Test Platform Engineer, Data Center Products

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in an object oriented language (e.g., Python, Java or golang).
• 5 years of experience specifying, deploying and configuring servers and network switches.
• 3 years of experience working in manufacturing software environments such as Test Engineering or Manufacturing Execution Systems.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree in Engineering or related field.
  
• 5 years of experience overseeing yield improvements and cycle time reductions for high volume and high complexity parts.
  

About the job

Google's custom-designed equipment makes up one of the largest and most powerful computing infrastructures in the world. The Manufacturing Operations team is responsible for providing the manufacturing capability to deliver this state-of-the-art physical infrastructure. As a Manufacturing Engineer, you evaluate the product designs and create the processes, tools and procedures behind Google’s powerful search technology. When vendors build parts for our infrastructure, you’re right there alongside ensuring manufacturing processes are repeatable and controlled. You collaborate with Commodity Managers and Design Engineers to determine Google’s infrastructure needs and product specifications. Your work ensures the various pieces of Google’s infrastructure fit together perfectly and keep our systems humming along smoothly for a seamless user experience.

In this role, your familiarity with hardware and networking will complement our current team. You will write code, and guide the team by specifying the right hardware for our software. You will also need to be proficient in speaking to our contract manufacturers IT teams about how to integrate our solutions into their networks.

Behind everything our users see online is the architecture built by the Technical Infrastructure team to keep it running. From developing and maintaining our data centers to building the next generation of Google platforms, we make Google's product portfolio possible. We're proud to be our engineers' engineers and love voiding warranties by taking things apart so we can rebuild them. We keep our networks up and running, ensuring our users have the best and fastest experience possible.

Responsibilities

• Identify hardware platforms and solutions on which to run our software.
• Deploy solutions to partner sites, interacting with IT teams to deploy solutions.
• Drive process design, optimization, and qualification activities of a manufacturing process for a component, part, or product.
  
• Interact with stakeholders to understand the requirements. Turn feature requests into complete designs using good design principles.
• Develop and maintain software features in Python in a Linux environment.