Mechanical Engineer, Data Center Technology Systems

Google

Sunnyvale, CA

JOB DETAILS
SKILLS
Artificial Intelligence (AI), Building Design, C++ Programming Language, Commissioning, Construction, Cost Control, Cross-Functional, Economic Analysis, Electricity, Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO), Heat Exchanger, Heat Transfer, Industrial Engineering, Leading Edge Technology, Maintain Compliance, Maintenance - HVAC, Mechanical Engineering, National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), Netscape IFC (Internet Foundation Classes), Network Operations Center, Piping, Plumbing, Power Generation, Professional Engineer, Python Programming/Scripting Language, Research & Development (R&D), Research Laboratory, SQL (Structured Query Language), Schematics, Systems Engineering, Technology White Papers, Vehicle Fleets, Writing Skills
LOCATION
Sunnyvale, CA
POSTED
14 days ago

Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Industrial Engineering, related fields, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 10 years of experience in mechanical infrastructure systems.
  • 10 years of experience with design, commissioning, and construction of cooling/heating/power generation systems.
  • 10 years of experience with building services design, including HVAC, fire protection, fuel systems, generation systems, and plumbing designs.
  • 10 years of experience with ICC code suite with focus on IMC, IECC, IFC, ASME B31 piping codes, NFPA, and relevant ASHR.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Master's degree or PhD in Mechanical Engineering or a Professional Engineering (PE) license.
  • Experience in applying data center technology.
  • Proficiency with SQL, Python, and C++.

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).

The Thermal Systems Engineering team stands at the forefront of accelerating innovation that powers Google's global infrastructure. We are the vital force behind the cutting-edge thermal solutions for Google's Plan of Record buildings, owning the entire thermal system design from the rack to the chiller. Our focus is to engineer and deliver solutions that maximize speed of delivery, optimize cost, enhance efficiency, and ensure reliability for Google's critical data centers.This team works on complex challenges, innovates with significant impact, and plays a crucial role in cooling the future while maintaining Google's competitive advantage. We work with various cross-functional teams, translating the evolving and demanding needs of Google's high-performance ML fleet into groundbreaking system and product requirements. This work directly shapes the technology that underpins the world's most advanced AI, keeping Google's infrastructure responsive to market demands.

Behind everything our users see online is the architecture built by the Technical Infrastructure team to keep it running. From developing and maintaining our data centers to building the next generation of Google platforms, we make Google's product portfolio possible. We're proud to be our engineers' engineers and love voiding warranties by taking things apart so we can rebuild them. We keep our networks up and running, ensuring our users have the best and fastest experience possible.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. US: $171000 - $248000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + bonus + equity + benefitsLearn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

  • Investigate next-generation mechanical systems to align with company long-term strategies by validating with first principles thermodynamic and heat transfer principles.
  • Innovate technology that can be used advantageously in data centers such as cooling plants, heat exchangers, pressure exchangers, CDUs, fans, fan coils and advanced controls systems.
  • Lead the insertion of new technologies by collaborating with core engineering and operations teams during development.
  • Create system-level concepts and schematic designs, carrying them through concept validation in collaboration with other hardware and data center engineers.
  • Author white papers to evaluate technologies from first principles of engineering combined with techno-economic evaluations.
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

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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