Thermal Systems Senior Manager, Google Cloud

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Product Design, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 12 years of experience in electronics packaging/server systems/data center or related industry.
• 12 years of experience with thermal analysis modeling and characterization.
• 5 years of experience with leading technical teams with product development.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Product Design, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience providing technical leadership by establishing project goals, co-ordinating resources, and solving system issues through technical innovation.
• Experience in one or more advanced cooling techniques such as liquid cooling, thermal interface materials, thermo-electric devices, two-phase heat transfer or heat exchangers.
• Experience capturing temperature, pressure, velocity, power, flow rates, acceleration, displacement, sound, FloTHERM, IcePak, and CAD experience.
• Experience leading collaborations with OEMs, ODMs, and cooling systems and component suppliers to deliver thermal products at scale.
• Experience using problem-solving methodologies and TCO frameworks.

About the job

The Platforms Infrastructure Engineering team designs and builds the hardware software technologies that power all of Google's services. As a Thermal Systems Senior Manager, you will lead teams to design and evaluate our IT and data center thermal systems, identifying product requirements and contributing to research and project planning. From the chip to the data center, you are responsible for leading teams (with people management responsibility) for designing and optimizing an architecture that will scale with Google's continued growth. With your technical expertise, you lead and manage people and projects, develop product and process improvements, provide consultation to others and help facilitate training and career development.

The ML, Systems, & Cloud AI (MSCA) organization at Google designs, implements, and manages the hardware, software, machine learning, and systems infrastructure for all Google services (Search, YouTube, etc.) and Google Cloud. Our end users are Googlers, Cloud customers and the billions of people who use Google services around the world.

We prioritize security, efficiency, and reliability across everything we do - from developing our latest TPUs to running a global network, while driving towards shaping the future of hyperscale computing. Our global impact spans software and hardware, including Google Cloud’s Vertex AI, the leading AI platform for bringing Gemini models to enterprise customers.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $221,000-$311,000 + 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.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team (with people management responsibilities) to resource and enable qualification of thermal solutions from concept design to final production and deployment, collaborate with cross-functional leaders and external vendors/partners to maintain and improve design, development/qualification processes
• Support career development and growth of individual team members, make hiring and talent decisions.
• Act as a technical leader with in-depth thermal knowledge of servers, storage, networking, ML systems, and other IT equipment systems
• Contribute to overall system architecture from “chip-to-chiller” to optimize performance and TCO of overall IT infrastructure, develop holistic thermal designs/architectures from package to the data center.
• Develop appropriate specifications and test procedures to ensure desired reliability and performance of electronic equipment, collaborate, supervise, mentor, and motivate internal and external teams to design and develop excellent products.