Staff Design Engineer, Networking, Google Cloud

Google Google · Big Tech · Haifa, Israel +1

This role focuses on designing and implementing custom silicon solutions (ASICs) for accelerating networking in Google's data centers. The engineer will lead ASIC subsystems, define hardware/software interfaces, and collaborate with cross-functional teams throughout the design process. While the role is within an organization that supports AI services, the core responsibilities are in hardware engineering for networking infrastructure, not direct AI/ML model development or deployment.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead an ASIC subsystem.
  2. Understand how it interacts with software and other ASIC subsystems to implement data center networks.
  3. Define hardware/software interfaces. Write micro architecture and design specifications.
  4. Define efficient micro-architecture and block partitioning/interfaces and flows.
  5. Collaborate closely with software, verification, and physical design stakeholders to ensure the designs are complete, correct, and performant.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 10 years of experience architecting networking ASICs from specification to production.
  • Experience developing Register-Transfer Level (RTL) for ASIC subsystems.
  • Experience with cross-functional engagement in micro-architecture, design, verification, logic synthesis, and timing closure.

Nice to have

  • Experience working with software teams optimizing the hardware/software interface.
  • Experience architecting networking switches, end points, and hardware offloads.
  • Experience working with design networking like: remote direct memory access (RDMA) or packet processing and system design principles for low latency, high throughput, security, and reliability.
  • Experience in transmission control protocol (TCP), IP, ethernet, peripheral component interconnect express (PCIE) and dynamic random access memory (DRAM) including network on chip (NoC) principles and protocols (e.g., AXI, ACE, and CHI).
  • Proficiency in procedural programming language (e.g., C++, Python, Go).
  • Understanding of packet classification, processing, queuing, scheduling, switching, traffic conditioning, and telemetry.

What the JD emphasized

  • architecting networking ASICs from specification to production