Product Safety Design Engineer, Google Cloud

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 2 years of experience working in product safety, or 1 year of experience with an advanced degree.
• Experience with test equipment such as oscilloscopes, hi-pot testers, electronic loads, etc.
• Experience with procedures related to obtaining international product safety approvals (CB, CE, NRTL/C, BIS CRS, KC, RCM, BSMI, CCC, etc.).

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics, or a related field.
  
• Experience working within full product delivery life cycles in a dynamic fast-paced environment.
• Experience with large-scale fire and fault condition testing.
• Product Safety experience specifically with Information Technology Equipment, liquid cooling and cooling distribution units.
• Understanding of the regulatory landscape and requirements in data center applications.
• Understanding of hardware design constraints and tradeoffs, and an ability to find cost effective work arounds and simultaneously investigate multiple avenues to solve problems.

About the job

As a Safety Engineer in Platforms Engineering you'll play a key role in the development of one of the world's most impressive computing infrastructures. Your objective will be to collaborate closely with our Product Development teams to propose, evaluate, and qualify design features which enhance the level of product safety as well as to ensure compliance to relevant worldwide safety standards. This will involve engaging with various disciplines (Electrical, Mechanical, Thermal, Power, etc.) as early as possible in the R&D cycle to ensure compliance by design rather than retrofit at a later time. In addition, you will be required to proactively interface with the compliance team to ensure all requirements have been implemented from a practical perspective.

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 $126,000-$181,000 + 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

• Work closely with hardware design teams and suppliers to understand new project architectures. Determine the appropriate safety standards and regulations. 
• Apply Hazard Based Safety Engineering principles to evaluate the hazards. Provide feedback to the design team to mitigate those hazards. 
• Develop test plans and lead a compliance testing team to extract key data to validate all safety goals are met in accordance with relevant standards and specifications. Resolve non-compliant issues by the most efficient and cost effective methods.
• Cultivate good working relationships with customers, external suppliers, agencies, and manufacturing to further safety goals. Help in developing strategy and roadmap for Safety initiatives to support power, cooling, and data center infrastructure. 
• Domestic and international business travel may be required. Communicate and document findings, risks and recommendations, perform failure analysis to sustaining engineering teams of deployed products.