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Job overview
Google’s Platforms Infrastructure Engineering team designs and builds hardware and software for its services, including compute, storage, networking, and machine learning hardware. The Staff Mechanical Product Design Engineer owns product design across the lifecycle and contributes mechanical expertise to technology roadmaps. The role calls for deep domain expertise and at least eight years of mechanical engineering and design experience.
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Staff Mechanical Product Design Engineer, Platforms
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Minimum qualifications:
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Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Product Design, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
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8 years of experience in mechanical engineering and design principles, including production, sheet metal, castings, injection molding, structural analysis, and design of cooling solutions.
Preferred qualifications:
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Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Product Design, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
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Experience developing products with high speed signal, power, and cooling interconnects. Experience in designing end-to-end deployment solutions.
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Experience in the mechanical design and engineering of high density, high component count Printed Circuit Board Assembly (PCBA) assemblies.
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Experience in designing electro-mechanical assemblies with an understanding of mechanical tolerances from chip to data center scale, tolerance stackup analysis, quick connect/disconnect technologies and mechanisms.
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Experience in designing thermal solutions for high power ASICS and knowledge of advanced cooling technologies.
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Experience utilizing AI productivity tools to streamline individual, business or development workflows.
About the job
Our Platforms Infrastructure Engineering team designs and builds the hardware and software technologies that power all of Google's services. Our computational issues are complex and unique, enabled by custom hardware designed and made in-house. Our Mechanical Product Design Engineering Team members work cross-functionally to design, build, and deploy the latest technology to support the needs of compute, storage, networking, and machine learning hardware.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: $188000 - $274000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits
Learn more aboutbenefits at Google (https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/benefits/) .
Responsibilities
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Own and design products over the entire product design life cycle, including requirements gathering, concept generation, detailed design with analysis, cross-functional reviews, verification testing, manufacturing release, and sustaining.
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Ensure designs are fundamentally sound, scalable, and meet engineering requirements backed by thorough engineering analysis and product validation through developing test plans, performing testing, and ensuring designs. Troubleshoot, root-cause, and resolve technical issues that arise throughout the product development life cycle.
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Influence and shape future products by providing mechanical and product design engineering expertise into the technology roadmap with data-driven decisions.
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Identify and scope projects around innovation opportunities as well as technology risks.
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Provide engineering knowledge and mentor team members in areas of expertise.
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How this job compares
Set against the 7,319 open Mechanical Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 12, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$188–274K/yr
- California median$126–180K/yr960 salary ranges
- US median$104–160K/yr4,410 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $231K, is 50% above the California median midpoint ($154K) — in the top quarter of Mechanical Engineer salary ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 1,209 open Mechanical Engineer jobs in California and 7,319 across the US. 3% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 8 years of experience; Mechanical Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (6,170 postings).
- Education
- 5,016 of the 7,319 open Mechanical Engineer jobs (69%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 12, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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