Job Description
In accordance with Washington state law, we are highlighting our comprehensive benefits package, which is available to all eligible US based employees. Benefits for this role include: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.
- Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
- Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
- Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
- Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance
- Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
- Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
- Holidays: 13 paid days per year
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering, a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
- 5 years of experience in mission critical facility design and construction environments.
- Experience using software tooling to conduct thermal analysis, computational fluid dynamics (CFD), or hydraulic modeling for air and waterside systems.
- Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams (e.g., operations, construction, or planning) to develop technical project documentation, specifications, or commissioning plans.
Preferred qualifications:
- Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, a Professional Engineering (PE) license, or equivalent advanced technical credentials.
- Experience with off-site modular construction, pre-fabrication methodologies, and off-site commissioning strategies in large-scale industrial or mission-critical environments.
- Experience with flushing critical cooling fluid systems including piping and equipment.
- Experience working with specialized engineering software such as Cadence Reality DC Design, AFT Fathom, or AutoPipe.
- Excellent communication skills, able to work in teams and matrix organization.
About the job
Our thirst for technology is a part of everything we do. The Data Center Engineering team takes the physical design of our data centers into the future. Our lab mirrors a research and development department -- cutting-edge strategies are born, tested and tested again. Along with a team of great minds, you take on complex topics like how we use power or how to run state-of-the-art, environmentally-friendly facilities. You're a visionary who optimizes for efficiencies and never stops seeking improvements -- even small changes that can make a huge impact. You generate ideas, communicate recommendations to senior-level executives and drive implementation alongside facilities technicians.With your technical expertise, you ensure compliance with codes and standards, develop infrastructure improvements and serve as an expert in your specialty (e.g., cooling, electrical).
As a Mechanical Engineer within the Data Center Technology Systems team, you will serve as a technical lead for our global mechanical infrastructure. You will pioneer next-generation cooling systems, innovating custom components and integrating modular design and pre-fabrication strategies to accelerate construction. Collaborating across Planning, Operations, and Execution teams, you will lead new technologies to optimize future products for Google’s machine learning fleet.You will leverage advanced software tools to conduct detailed thermal analysis, computational fluid dynamics, and hydraulic modeling of complex air and waterside systems. Your deep understanding of thermodynamics will drive the creation of critical engineering specifications and commissioning plans. A concise communicator, you will deliver actionable recommendations to cross-functional partners, ensuring data center scalability and efficiency.
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 team 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.
Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. US: $144000 - $209000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + bonus + equity + benefitsLearn more about benefits at Google.Responsibilities
- Serve as the technical lead for global mechanical infrastructure, leading the design, testing, and deployment of custom data center cooling components and next-generation technologies.
- Implement offsite modular construction and pre-fabrication strategies to streamline deployment timelines and improve infrastructure scalability.
- Conduct detailed thermal analysis, computational fluid dynamics (CFD), and hydraulic modeling of complex air and waterside systems to validate proposed technologies.
- Collaborate with Planning, Operations, and Execution teams to optimize the fleet and integrate complex mechanical systems parallel to project schedules to support machine learning demands.
- Prepare and deliver comprehensive engineering project packages, including statements of work, product specifications, drawings, and commissioning test plans.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Reno, NV |
| Industry | Computer Software |
| Company Size | 10,000 employees or more |
| Year Founded | 1998 |
| Website | https://goo.gle/4dbno6V |
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
About Company
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.
Skills
- Artificial Intelligence (AI)unmatched
- Bentley AutoPIPEunmatched
- Cadenceunmatched
- Cloud Computingunmatched
- Commissioningunmatched
- Commissioning - Engineeringunmatched
- Communication Skillsunmatched
- Constructionunmatched
- Construction Planningunmatched
- Cross-Functionalunmatched
- Disability Insuranceunmatched
- Electricityunmatched
- Employee Benefitsunmatched
- Engineeringunmatched
- Engineering Softwareunmatched
- Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO)unmatched
- Fluid Mechanics and Dynamicsunmatched
- Hydraulic Engineeringunmatched
- Industrial Engineeringunmatched
- Life Insuranceunmatched
- Machine Learningunmatched
- Machine Toolunmatched
- Maintain Complianceunmatched
- Matrix Managementunmatched
- Mechanical Engineeringunmatched
- Network Operations Centerunmatched
- Operations Planningunmatched
- Operations Researchunmatched
- Pipingunmatched
- Professional Engineerunmatched
- Project Developmentunmatched
- Project Scheduleunmatched
- Research & Development (R&D)unmatched
- Research Laboratoryunmatched
- State Laws and Regulationsunmatched
- Statement of Work (SOW)unmatched
- System Integration (SI)unmatched
- System Validationunmatched
- Systems Engineeringunmatched
- Team Playerunmatched
- Technical Leadershipunmatched
- Technical Writingunmatched
- Test Designunmatched
- Testingunmatched
- Thermal Analysisunmatched
- Thermodynamicsunmatched
- Vehicle Fleetsunmatched
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