Staff Signal Integrity Engineer, Platforms

Minimum qualifications:

• PhD degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 6 years of experience working in a signal integrity technical environment.
• 3 years of experience in technical leadership.

Preferred qualifications:

• PhD degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience with product development process for mass volume production design, with a focus on signal integrity, power integrity and lab validation.
• Experience with PCIE, DDR, SATA, Ethernet standards, PCB, connector, or cable design and assembly processes, including materials and component selection.
• Experience with Allegro, HFSS, SIwave, ADS, Matlab, PowerDC, PowerSI.
• Experience in scripting for data collection and analysis (Python, bash) and understanding of FEC and its implications for system design.
• Experience in a lab environment with SerDes testing and understanding of SERDES capabilities.

About the job

As a Staff Signal Integrity Engineer, you will design and build the systems that are important to our largest and powerful computing infrastructure. You will see those systems from concepts all the way through to high volume manufacturing. You will support the machinery that goes into our data centers affecting millions of Google users.The AI and Infrastructure team is redefining what’s possible. We empower Google customers with breakthrough capabilities and insights by delivering AI and Infrastructure at unparalleled scale, efficiency, reliability and velocity. Our customers include Googlers, Google Cloud customers, and billions of Google users worldwide.

We're the driving force behind Google's groundbreaking innovations, empowering the development of our cutting-edge AI models, delivering unparalleled computing power to global services, and providing the essential platforms that enable developers to build the future. From software to hardware our teams are shaping the future of world-leading hyperscale computing, with key teams working on the development of our TPUs, Vertex AI for Google Cloud, Google Global Networking, Data Center operations, systems research, and much more.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $174,000-$258,000 + 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 System Signal Integrity (SI) design on data center hardware products.
• Collaborate with board, chip and system engineers, design partners, and chip vendors, to drive system SI design, explore layout and manufacturability tradeoffs, and ensure that product functions as required.
• Drive Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC), package, board, connector, and cable vendors to develop new interconnect technologies.
• Participate in system interconnects bring up and qualification, work with test engineers and include configuring chips to ensure adequate margin.
• Drive solutions for SI issues with design engineers, Printed Circuit Board (PCB) designers, and system teams, run trade-off analysis on performance and cost.