Staff Hardware Engineer, Electrical Engineering Design, Google Cloud
Sunnyvale, CA, USA · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 22, 2026
- Experience
- 6 years in electrical engineering design and 3 years in technical leadership; preferred: 8 years in board design, system architecture, and electrical engineering design.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Leads architecture and electrical board design for next-generation Google Cloud infrastructure platforms, from system validation through high-volume manufacturing.
What you'll do
- Set system architecture, technology roadmaps, board-level design direction, and design standards.
- Lead cross-disciplinary design trade-offs and define interconnect, stackup, routing, power delivery, and high-speed signal guidelines.
- Oversee validation, system bring-up, and debugging; lead cross-functional delivery and manufacturing initiatives.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 6 years of experience working on electrical engineering design.
- 3 years of experience in technical leadership.
- Experience with Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) Hardware platforms, including Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) and Tensor Processing Units (TPUs).
Nice to have
- PhD degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 years of experience working on board design, system architecture, and electrical engineering design; experience with data center engineering, AI/ML, server, storage and networking products.
Pay
$188000 - $274000 (USD) base salary
Tools
Machine Learning (ML), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Graphics Processing Units (GPUs), Tensor Processing Units (TPUs)
AI focus
Experience with AI/ML hardware platforms; the role designs infrastructure platforms for AI/ML workloads.
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