System Hardware Reliability Engineer, TPU Systems

1 week ago

Austin, Texas, United States Google Full time $138,000 - $202,000
Minimum qualifications:
  • Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Mechanical, Industrial, Materials, a related engineering field or equivalent practical experience.
  • 8 years of experience in manufacturing.
Preferred qualifications:
  • Master's degree or PhD in Electrical, Mechanical, Industrial, Materials, or a related engineering field.
  • Experience setting up manufacturing assembly processes, managing product launches and assembly process optimization within manufacturing operations.
  • Experience in technical leadership, project management, and executive communication.
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 System Hardware Reliability Engineer, TPU systems. You will work closely with an integrated engineering team to reduce the risk of system hardware failure at customer data center sites. You will support hardware quality and reliability needs to ensure the best possible hardware performance and customer experience. You will be a hardware reliability expert to quantify and monitor the system repair trends. You will be an expert in statistical analysis and reliability statistics such as Homogeneous and Non-Homogeneous Poisson Process, Mean Cumulative Function, and degradation analysis among others. You will leverage your experience in failure analysis of hardware systems, particularly relating to solder joint reliability, Printed Circuit Board Assembly (PCBA), and thermal interface among others.

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.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $138,000-$202,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities:
  • Lead system hardware reliability efforts by working with partner organizations in identifying potential failure-inducing factors for our TPU systems at customer data centers.
  • Define a plan to manage the system hardware reliability needs for TPU system deployments at customer data centers, including managing early installation issues, monitoring and improving times to repair, monitoring delivered system hardware availability under customer workloads, monitoring random failure events, and early detection and actioning of wearout or unexpected system failure trends.
  • Extract system field reliability data and, using investigative skills and reliability principles, obtain information needed to drive failure analysis efforts, identification of root causes of failure, and creation of actionable insights to improve customer experience.
  • Manage efforts with external partners, testing labs, failure analysis labs, and cross-functional internal groups, while developing in-house test and qualification capabilities where needed.

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