Senior Product Engineer, Machine Learning Accelerators

Google Google · Big Tech · Sunnyvale, CA +1

This role focuses on the engineering and manufacturing aspects of machine learning accelerators, specifically custom silicon solutions like TPUs. While it supports AI/ML capacity deployment and the development of ML systems, the core craft is in hardware engineering, supply chain, and manufacturing operations, not direct AI/ML model development or research. The role involves leading technology assessment, collaborating on product design and manufacturing risks, validating qualification plans, and supporting pre-production builds to ensure product quality and reliability at scale.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead the technology assessment for new products. Co-work with the product team to influence design decisions, highlight manufacturing risks, and develop mitigation plans.
  2. Collaborate with Quality and Reliability Engineers to establish New Product Introduction (NPI) and production goals for yield and long-term reliability.
  3. Validate product qualification plans, support reliability testing and review results to ensure product performance meets requirements.
  4. Lead cross-functional teams towards resolution of components and build quality excursions during New Product Introduction build phases.
  5. Provide on-site and remote support for pre-production builds. Ensure factory readiness, support manufacturing line bring-up, provide product debug training and gather feedback on build issues. Manage the bonepile and drive yield bridge analysis to improve product quality.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering or equivalent practical experience
  • 8 years of experience in manufacturing
  • Experience in PCBA (Printed Circuit Board Assembly) and related system assembly
  • Experience in design for manufacturability and serviceability

Nice to have

  • Master's degree or PhD in Electrical, Mechanical, Industrial, Materials, or a related engineering field
  • 10 years of experience at a company developing supply chains in manufacturing and testing
  • Experience working with Original Device Manufacturers (ODMs), contract manufacturers and component suppliers for data center server accelerator products (e.g., GPU, FPGA or ASIC)
  • Experience working with contract manufacturers and suppliers to drive root cause analysis, corrective actions and continuous process improvements
  • Experience of bring-up or bench testing hardware in a lab environment
  • Knowledge of SQL queries and scripting in Python or Bash

What the JD emphasized

  • custom silicon solutions
  • Machine Learning Accelerators
  • TPUs
  • Vertex AI
  • hardware
  • manufacturing
  • supply chain