Data Center Hardware Specialist I, Google Cloud (Fixed-Term Contract)

Google

Not available, TX

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JOB DETAILS

SKILLS

Artificial Intelligence (AI), Best Practices, Business Growth, Cloud Computing, Computer Engineering, Computer Hardware, Computer Science, Computer Systems, Consulting, Customer Relations, Distributed Computing, Electrical Engineering, Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO), Firewalls, GPU (Graphics Processing Unit), Hardware-Software Integration, JAX (Java API for XML), Linux Operating System, Load Balancing, Network Design, Network Operations Center, Network Systems, Partner Sales, Problem Solving Skills, Product Engineering, Production Systems, Professional Services, Project/Program Management, Server Clusters, System Architecture, Systems Administration/Management, Team Player, Technical Delivery, Technical Leadership, VPN (Virtual Private Network), Willing to Travel

LOCATION

Not available, TX

POSTED

30+ days ago

Note: Google's hybrid workplace includes remote roles.Remote location: Texas, USA.

Minimum qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
3 years of experience in technical solution delivery and project management for enterprise infrastructure projects.
2 years of experience in technical architecture, systems administration, or infrastructure delivery in cloud or on-prem environments.
Experience in hardware triage, diagnostics, and guiding repair workflows for server clusters and networks.

Preferred qualifications:

Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or Engineering.
Experience with end-to-end system architecture or accelerated computing hardware (e.g. Kubernetes, GKE, EKS, GPU workloads, or Linux-based distributed systems).
Experience with networking and system design of load balancers, firewalls, and VPN in architecting, developing and maintaining production-grade systems.
Experience in maintaining clusters of massive-scale model training using high-end hardware accelerators and AI/ML infrastructure frameworks such as JAX, PyTorch, or OpenXLA).

About the job

The Google Cloud Consulting Professional Services team guides customers through the moments that matter most in their cloud journey to help businesses thrive. We help customers transform and evolve their business through the use of Google’s global network, web-scale data centers, and software infrastructure. As part of an innovative team in this rapidly growing business, you will help shape the future of businesses of all sizes and use technology to connect with customers, employees, and partners.As a Hardware Specialist, you will lead the technical delivery of confidential compute projects for strategic customers. You will serve as the primary technical liaison between global clients, internal engineering teams, and internal operations. Your role involves maintaining complex on-prem and cloud-based environments, ensuring seamless integration of high-performance accelerators with enterprise-grade networking and storage to support the next-generation of mission-critical, data-intensive workloads.It's an exciting time to join Google Cloud’s Go-To-Market team, leading the AI revolution for businesses worldwide. You’ll leverage Google's brand credibility—a legacy built on inventing foundational technologies and proven at scale. We’ll provide you with the world's most advanced AI portfolio, including frontier Gemini models, and the complete Vertex AI platform, helping you to solve business problems. We’re a collaborative culture providing direct access to DeepMind's engineering and research minds, empowering you to solve customer challenges. Join us to be the catalyst for our mission, drive customer success, and define the new cloud era—the market is yours.Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. US: $126000 - $181000 (USD) + 15% bonus targetLearn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

Maintain and oversee the end-to-end deployment of large-scale accelerated compute clusters, acting as the lead technical advisor for confidential, enterprise infrastructure initiatives.
Work with customer technical leads, and client executives to manage and deliver successful implementations of technical solutions for high-density computing environments.
Collaborate with internal specialists, Product, and Engineering teams to package technical playbooks, best practices, and reference architectures for high-performance computing, influencing the roadmap for next-generation hardware and software integration.
Interact with Sales and partners to manage project scope, priorities, deliverables, risks and issues, and timelines for successful client outcomes.
Travel approximately 30% of the time for client engagements.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.

About the Company

Google

Build for everyone

Since our founding in 1998, Google has grown by leaps and bounds. Starting from two computer science students in a university dorm room, we now have thousands of employees and offices around the world. These Googlers build products that help create opportunities for everyone, whether down the street or across the globe.

It starts with how we work together. We’re building a company where people of different views, backgrounds and experiences can do their best work and show up for one another. A place where every Googler feels like they belong.

So whether you develop new technology or creative campaigns, craft beautiful products or breakthrough partnerships, your work here is a chance to accomplish things that matter. Bring your insight, imagination, and healthy disregard for the impossible. Bring everything that makes you unique. Together, we can build for everyone.

Benefits

We strive to provide Googlers and their loved ones with a world-class benefits experience, focused on supporting their physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing. Our benefits are based on data, and centered around our users: Googlers and their families. They’re thoughtfully designed to enhance your health and wellbeing, and generous enough to make it easy for you to take good care of yourself (now, and in the future). So we can build for everyone, together.

Learn more about Google’s benefits on this site featuring Googlers’ experience.

How we Hire

Google’s hiring process is an important part of our culture. Googlers care deeply about their teams and the people who make them up. In order to build for everyone, we know that we need a wide range of perspectives and experiences, and a fair hiring process is the first step in getting there.

Learn more about our hiring process.

COMPANY SIZE

10,000 employees or more

INDUSTRY

Computer Software

EMPLOYEE BENEFITS

Paid Sick Days, Performance Bonus, Professional Development, 401K, Stock Options, Employee Events, Retirement / Pension Plans, Tuition Reimbursement, Work From Home, Life Insurance, On Site Cafeteria

FOUNDED

1998

WEBSITE

https://goo.gle/4dbno6V

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