Power Management Engineer, Platforms Engineering

Google Google · Big Tech · Sunnyvale, CA +1

This role focuses on designing and building hardware and systems for Google's computing infrastructure, specifically in power management and optimization for servers and machine learning systems. It involves circuit design, system design, and manufacturing oversight, with a focus on innovation and efficiency in power usage.

What you'd actually do

  1. Innovate and deliver initiatives for server and machine learning system power management and optimization across silicon, platform hardware, rack power, system software, and manufacturing. Design and implement power management specifications and solutions for these systems.
  2. Develop methodologies for system power modeling and validation of power management features. Analyze trade-offs in performance, cost, reliability, and availability.
  3. Partner with power industry leaders to guide the evaluation and adoption of technologies.
  4. Guide cross-functional team collaboration with system architects, hardware engineers, chip designers, software/firmware teams, system qualification, and others. Deliver business justification studies.
  5. Provide technical guidance and direction while troubleshooting system-level power management issues.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 4 years of experience working with power chip or system power management features definition, design, implementation, integration, and testing.
  • Experience with low power design techniques voltage/frequency scaling, xPU and system power states, power modeling, and related software/hardware.

Nice to have

  • Master's or PhD degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics, or a related field.
  • 1 year of experience in technical leadership role.
  • Experience in power system design, voltage regulation, energy storage, and conversion topologies.
  • Knowledge of power electronics fundamentals and various power conversion technologies for data center power delivery.
  • Knowledge of power converter modeling and simulation.
  • Knowledge on total cost of ownership modeling and simulation.

What the JD emphasized

  • design and build the systems that are the heart of the computing infrastructure
  • develop from the lowest levels of circuit design to system design
  • power management and optimization across silicon, platform hardware, rack power, system software, and manufacturing