Job Description
This is a specialized role which requires physical interaction with hardware equipment in a simulated data center environment, utilizing Google labs, power, and safety equipment. Regular development and processing of engineering hardware must be performed on site.
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.
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 years of experience in leading cross-functional teams, and robotics product development.
- Experience in robotic control, planning, kinematics, and mechatronic systems.
- Experience in shipping full-stack robotics systems.
- Experience in robotics industry, robotics applications development and turning research and development (R&D) into deployed, real world systems.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience with embedded systems (e.g., RTOS, microcontrollers, FPGA), sensor fusion, and actuator control.
- Experience implementing foundational vision-language-action (VLA) models, imitation learning, and reinforcement learning (RL) pipelines to teach robots dynamic object manipulation.
- Experience accelerating robot learning with world models and simulation.
- Familiarity with motion control systems and robotics programming languages (e.g. Robot Operating System) or similar frameworks.
- Understanding of recent advancements in the robotics field, specifically the application of general-purpose bipedal/wheeled humanoid platforms for flexible, human-centric data center tasks.
- Understanding of low-latency tele-operation infrastructure, haptic feedback integration, and human-in-the-loop systems for remote hardware interventions and data collection.
About the job
Our Physical Infrastructure Robotics team is dedicated to implementing robotics technologies and solutions to transform operations inside our data centers.
In this role, you will lead the development, integration, and scaling of autonomous physical systems across our global hyperscale data center footprint. You will lead across multiple robotics engineering disciplines to develop innovative and industry-leading solutions to enable next generation data center operations. You will collaborate closely with hardware, software, and system engineers to ensure seamless product integration, and integration of the solutions into our infrastructure operations. You will maximize physical hardware operational uptime, accelerate time-to-market, and reduce safety risks within ultra-high-density compute environments.
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.
Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. US: $236000 - $330000 (USD) + 25% bonus target + bonus + equity + benefitsLearn more about benefits at Google.Responsibilities
- Collaborate closely with executive leadership to align on Robotics initiatives and roadmap, engineering execution with business goals.
- Build and lead high-performing engineering teams across mechanical, electrical, embedded, and software disciplines within Robotics engineering.
- Provide management support and guidance to internal teams and external partners (including solution vendors and contract manufacturers) throughout the development lifecycle, addressing inquiries and resolving issues as they arise.
- Deliver the multi-year robotics and hardware automation strategy tailored for compute, storage, and specialized liquid-cooled AI hardware infrastructure.
- Oversee the end-to-end deployment of autonomous mobile robots (AMRs), automated guided vehicles (AGVs), and multi-axis robotic arms for handling delicate data center hardware.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Sunnyvale, CA |
| 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
- Automationunmatched
- Cloud Computingunmatched
- Computer Systemsunmatched
- Contract Manufacturingunmatched
- Control Systemsunmatched
- Cross-Functionalunmatched
- Data Collectionunmatched
- Electricityunmatched
- Embedded Softwareunmatched
- Embedded Systemsunmatched
- Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO)unmatched
- FPGAunmatched
- Hapticsunmatched
- Leadershipunmatched
- Mechanical Engineeringunmatched
- Microcontrollerunmatched
- Motion Controlunmatched
- Network Operations Centerunmatched
- Operating Systemsunmatched
- Operations Researchunmatched
- Problem Solving Skillsunmatched
- Product Developmentunmatched
- Product Lifecycleunmatched
- Programming Languagesunmatched
- Realtime Operating Systemunmatched
- Reinforcement Learningunmatched
- Research & Development (R&D)unmatched
- Risk Managementunmatched
- Roboticsunmatched
- Robotics Softwareunmatched
- Simulationunmatched
- Software Developmentunmatched
- Software Engineeringunmatched
- Systems Engineeringunmatched
- Team Lead/Managerunmatched
- Technical Leadershipunmatched
- Training/Teachingunmatched
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