Hardware Reliability Engineer, Global Hardware Reliability Engineering

Google isn't just a software company. The Hardware Operations team is responsible for monitoring the state-of-the-art physical infrastructure behind Google's powerful search technology. As an Operations Technician, you'll install, configure, test, troubleshoot and maintain hardware (like servers and its components) and server software (like Google's Linux cluster). You'll also take on the configuration of more complex components such as networks, routers, hubs, bridges, switches and networking protocols. You'll participate in or lead small project teams on larger installations and develop project contingency plans. A typical day involves manual movement and installation of racks, and while it can sometimes be physically demanding, you are excited to work with infrastructure that is at the cutting-edge of computer technology.

As a Hardware Reliability Engineer, you will manage the hardware reliability of new machine learning, server, networking, and storage products. You will also perform early system configuration analysis and simulations, to assess reliability capability of the design and plan of record (POR) configurations. You will perform DFR, Reliability test development for hardware targeted to survive rugged environments. You will support field excursion issues and statistical analysis needs for reliability. You will conduct Mechanical, Environmental and Operational accelerated stress test development to cover transportation, operation in challenging usage environments.

The AI and Infrastructure team is redefining what’s possible. We empower Google customers with breakthrough capabilities and insights by delivering AI and Infrastructure at unparalleled scale, efficiency, reliability and velocity. Our customers include Googlers, Google Cloud customers, and billions of Google users worldwide.

We're the driving force behind Google's groundbreaking innovations, empowering the development of our cutting-edge AI models, delivering unparalleled computing power to global services, and providing the essential platforms that enable developers to build the future. From software to hardware our teams are shaping the future of world-leading hyperscale computing, with key teams working on the development of our TPUs, Vertex AI for Google Cloud, Google Global Networking, Data Center operations, systems research, and much more.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $144,000-$209,000 + 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 analysis of system hardware designs to enable proactive design evaluations and product de-risk at an early stage of development.
  
• Lead system reliability efforts by working with other organizations to define reliability goals and reliability plans, securing the resources needed to execute the plan.
  
• Develop mission profiles for chasis, rack from integration sites to field (data centers) that help predict field reliability.
  
• Implement the reliability plan and lead all efforts to assess and mitigate risk of failure early during new product introduction (NPI).
• Drive reliability test plans and collect, analyze, and synthesize the test data to enable verification of the design reliability goals.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Reliability, Electrical, Industrial or Mechanical Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience with reliability engineering.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD in Reliability, Electrical, Industrial, or Mechanical Engineering.
• Experience with system level reliability tools such as Reliability Block Diagrams (RBDs), Mean Cumulative Function (MCF), Homogeneous and Non-Homogeneous Poisson Processes (HPP, NHPP), and simulation tools.
• Experience in accelerated life testing, reliability modeling, reliability stats, mission profile development.
• Experience with failure analysis and fault isolation techniques and their application to find root causes of failure.
• Experience in statistics and JMP.
• Understanding of physics of failure and reliability physics.