Senior Hardware Engineer, Google Beam

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 4 years of experience in electrical validation for hardware systems.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics, or a related field.
• 8 years of experience with hardware design, debug, and bring-up, with display driving hardware.
• Experience debugging display systems, especially with the hardware/software boundary, including using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and other test equipment.

About the job

As a Senior Hardware Engineer on the Google Beam team, you will be a key player in designing, implementing, and delivering hardware systems for our next-generation products. You will drive hardware solutions from concept through production, ensuring robust designs that meet performance, efficiency, and reliability goals. Your work will directly impact how users interact with our groundbreaking communications products and other hardware initiatives.

Google Beam is a true-to-life new communication technology from Google that allows people to feel like they’re having real face-to-face conversations, no matter the distance. Powered by realistic state-of-the-art 3D imaging and spatial audio and integrated with today’s leading remote video platforms, Google Beam enables you to be immersed in the moment, together. As a part of the Google Beam team, you'll work with incredible teammates across all major functions in a fast-paced product-oriented environment. Your contributions will have an impact on the future of communications with Google products. You will apply technology to solve that really important problem that we often want to be together and we can’t.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $147,000-$216,000 + 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

• Gather system requirements, define architecture, and execute hardware design for advanced electronic systems, including but not limited to the compute platform of Google Beam.
  
• Drive hardware system development from initial concept through high-volume production.
  
• Lead the design, bring-up, and validation of hardware solutions, assisting with deployment and sustaining activities. Lead debug and root cause analysis of complex hardware issues in deployed systems.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with hardware, firmware, software, power, mechanical, thermal, validation, signal integrity, manufacturing, and external vendors to ensure robust system integration.
  
• Partner closely with Firmware/Software Engineers to support the development and integration of firmware/software for SoC and embedded microcontrollers.