Power Architect, Platforms Engineering

As a Power Engineer in Technical Infrastructure at Google, you will be involved in developing one of the world's growing computing infrastructures. Your role will focus on designing, analyzing, optimizing, and implementing board and chip level power topologies and control for large scale point of load applications, including ASICs, FPGAs, and processors.

You will work as part of a team to deliver innovative power solutions for point of load applications. Your responsibilities will include:

1. Innovating and designing on-board power conversion specifications and solutions
2. Analyzing performance, cost, reliability, and availability trade-offs
3. Leading projects involving new technologies or new uses of multiple existing technologies
4. Partnering with power industry leaders to evaluate and adopt compelling technologies
5. Engaging cross-functionally to ensure successful roll-out, testing, and complete validation
6. Providing technical leadership and direction while troubleshooting complex system level power issues

This role requires physical interaction with hardware equipment in a simulated data center environment, utilizing Google labs, power, and safety equipment. Regular development and processing of engineering hardware must be performed on site.

Google's Technical Infrastructure team is responsible for building and maintaining the architecture that supports Google's product portfolio. From developing and maintaining data centers to building the next generation of Google platforms, this team ensures that Google's networks run efficiently and provide users with the best and fastest experience possible.

The ideal candidate will have a strong background in power converter design, including DC/DC converter design, board bring-up, and debugging. Technical leadership experience and expertise in power system design, power electronics fundamentals, and power converter modeling and simulation are highly valued for this position.