Hardware Testing Engineer, Atlanta, GA, USA

Google's custom-designed machines make up one of the largest and most powerful computing infrastructures in the world. The Hardware Testing Engineering team ensures that this cutting-edge equipment is reliable. In the R&D lab, you design test equipment for prototypes of our machinery and develop the protocols used to scale these tests for the entire global team. Working closely with design engineers, you give input on designs to improve our hardware until you're sure it meets Google's standards of quality and reliability.

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Responsibilities

• Assist design engineers in testing and evaluating new products, root causing issues found in test data, and actively participating by making sound recommendations to resolve the issues.
• Perform bench level repair and bring-up on engineering prototypes; Prepare and execute diagnostic test plans while documenting results.
• Execute DVT and PVT test plans such as hardware reliability measurements and systems integration tests; Generate acceptance test reports and work with engineers to resolve issues.
• Bring up test deployments, install system monitoring, and perform other tasks common to system level testing.
• Lead test efforts in Google data centers which includes coordinating small, medium, and large scale system bring-up efforts, delegating tasks, and providing work instructions for operations teams.

Minimum qualifications

• BS degree in Computer/Electronic Engineering or Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience working in a hardware R&D lab environment, Linux and networking technologies

Preferred qualifications

• Experience engineering test processes(designing and automating testing, writing test plans, and writing test reports)
• Experience working in a data center or similar operations environment.
• Intermediate to advanced working knowledge of modern analog and digital electronic circuits
• Proficient with test equipment such as oscilloscopes, amp-probes, logic analyzers, communication analyzers, etc.
• Must be able to work from schematics, CAD drawings, rough engineering drawings and/or verbal instructions
• Possess excellent soldering skills and is able to solder small packages such as 0402 resistors and other SMT devices

Area

Google is and always will be an engineering company. We hire people with a broad set of technical skills who are ready to tackle some of technology's greatest challenges and make an impact on millions, if not billions, of users. At Google, engineers not only revolutionize search, they routinely work on massive scalability and storage solutions, large-scale applications and entirely new platforms for developers around the world. From AdWords to Chrome, Android to YouTube, Social to Local, Google engineers are changing the world one technological achievement after another.

Job details

Team or role:

Hardware Engineering

Job type:

Full-time

Last updated:

Oct 10, 2013

Job location(s):

Atlanta, GA, USA

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