October 3, 2025

Hardware Design Engineer, Board and Systems

Mid • On-site

$126,000 - $181,000/yr

Sunnyvale, CA

Minimum qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
2 years of experience working in a enterprise hardware systems design technical environment, or 1 year of experience with an advanced degree.

Preferred qualifications:

Master's or PhD degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics, or a related field.
3 years of experience with enterprise class hardware systems design.
Experience in solving system issues, technical innovation and drive technical roadmap.
Experience with data center engineering, server, storage and networking products.
Experience with FPGA/CPLD Design and interface with other disciplines, including software, signal integrity, thermal and mechanical.
Ability to collect and organize details to reproduce results and explain what happened.

About the job

Be part of a team that pushes boundaries, developing custom silicon solutions that power the future of Google's direct-to-consumer products. You'll contribute to the innovation behind products loved by millions worldwide. Your expertise will shape the next generation of hardware experiences, delivering unparalleled performance, efficiency, and integration.

Our Platforms Infrastructure Engineering team designs and builds the hardware and software technologies that power all of Google's services. Our computational challenges are complex and unique, enabled by custom hardware designed and made in-house. Our Mechanical Product Design Engineering Team members work cross-functionally to design, build, and deploy the latest technology to support the needs of compute, storage, networking, and machine learning hardware.

As a hardware engineer in the board and system design team, you will work on hardware systems projects to craft solutions for current and future data center deployments.You will work with product teams to ensure that customer goals are met with your systems, ASIC/FPGA, Software, and Verification teams to ensure proper verification of features in your systems, Manufacturing teams to ensure that your designs are manufacturable and ready for volume production, Field teams to support systems that are deployed in the data center.

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 $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

Lead the hardware design on a system or sub-system of a data center hardware product.
Bring up systems and execute engineering validation in the lab.
Gather requirements, define high level architecture, execute hardware design and product validation.
Work closely with engineering, manufacturing, product, and deployment teams to productize designs and field support.
Drive product from concept to production.

Google

Google LLC started as a PhD project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1998 at Stanford University. Google LLC has blossomed into a behemoth of the tech world. With its mission to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful, Google’s search engine is its crown jewel. Online advertising, via AdWords and AdSense, forms the backbone of its financial success. Beyond search, Google has ventured into cloud computing, hardware, and software development. The innovative PageRank algorithm revolutionized search engine technology, and surviving the dot-com bubble burst and going public in 2004 spurred its meteoric growth. Acquiring YouTube stands as a testament to Google’s strategic expansion.