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Manufacturing Test Development Engineer, Google Cloud Platforms, Infrastructure Engineering

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Compensation
$144–208K/yr
Location
Sunnyvale, CA
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

The Manufacturing Test Development Engineer evaluates product designs and creates manufacturing test processes, tools, and procedures for Google infrastructure products. The role develops test equipment and protocols, works with design engineers and manufacturing partners, and helps ensure tests are repeatable and controlled. The position may require international travel up to 20% of the time.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Manufacturing Test DevelopmentPCBA Test SolutionsComputer Systems TestingManufacturing Test HardwareCustom ElectronicsFixturesInstrumentationPythonTest AutomationManufacturing Test StrategySoftware DevelopmentEnd-to-End Test StrategyStructural TestingFunctional TestingSystem TestingHigh-Performance ComputingGPU Testing

Qualifications

Bachelor's in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science or Equivalent Practical Experience8+ Years Manufacturing Test, Quality, Reliability or Product Engineering8+ Years Manufacturing Test Solutions for PCBAs and Computer Systems6+ Years Manufacturing Test Hardware and Python Automation10+ Years Manufacturing Tests and Python Software DevelopmentEnglish Proficiency

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Manufacturing Test Development Engineer, Google Cloud Platforms, Infrastructure Engineering

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Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience.

  • 8 years of experience as a Manufacturing Test, Quality, Reliability, or Product Engineer.

  • 8 years of experience developing manufacturing test solutions for PCBAs and computer systems.

  • 6 years of experience developing or integrating manufacturing test hardware using custom electronics, fixtures and instrumentation and using Python for automation.

Preferred qualifications:

  • 10 years of experience in manufacturing tests and software development using Python.

  • Experience with creating end-to-end manufacturing test strategies from structural through functional and system tests.

  • Experience with architecting complex manufacturing test solutions for high-performance compute-based products (i.e., GPUs).

About the job

Google's custom-designed machines make up one of the largest and most powerful computing infrastructures in the world. The Hardware Testing Engineering team ensures that this cutting-edge equipment is reliable. In the R&D lab, you design test equipment for prototypes of our machinery and develop the protocols used to scale these tests for the entire global team. Working closely with design engineers, you give input on designs to improve our hardware until you're sure it meets Google's standards of quality and reliability.

As a Manufacturing Test Development Engineer, you will evaluate the product designs and create the manufacturing test processes, tools and procedures behind the products powering Google’s Data Centers, Google Cloud and Google’s Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning. When vendors build parts for our infrastructure, you are right there alongside ensuring manufacturing test processes are repeatable and controlled. You will collaborate with Commodity Managers and Design Engineers to determine Google’s infrastructure needs and product specifications. Your work will ensure the various pieces of Google’s infrastructure fit together perfectly and keep our systems humming along smoothly for a seamless user experience.

You will be expected to travel internationally up to 20% of the time as needed.

Our Platforms Infrastructure Engineering team designs and builds the

hardware and software technologies that power all of Google's services. Our computational challenges are complex and unique, enabled by cutting-edge custom hardware designed and made in-house. As a hardware engineer, you will design and build the systems that are the heart of the world's largest and most powerful computing infrastructure. You will see those systems from concept all the way through to high-volume manufacturing. Your work has the potential to shape the machinery that goes into our cutting-edge data centers, affecting millions of Google users.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $144000 - $208000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more aboutbenefits at Google (https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/benefits/) .

Responsibilities

  • Drive manufacturing test development for new and existing product designs. Architect and write test software to drive end-to-end test coverage based on product and quality requirements.

  • Develop automated test scripts for functional and system tests, software installation using Python.

  • Design, build, and deploy test platforms for Google's global manufacturing partners.

  • Analyze, troubleshoot, and root cause manufacturing yield issues and field escapes. Drive issues to closure with preventive measures.

  • Define the manufacturing test strategy for new products and work with our partners to jointly develop the required test solutions.

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Google is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We are committed to building a workforce that is representative of the users we serve, creating a culture of belonging, and providing an equal employment opportunity regardless of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding), expecting or parents-to-be, criminal histories consistent with legal requirements, or any other basis protected by law. See alsoGoogle's EEO Policy (https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/eeo/) ,Know your rights: workplace discrimination is illegal (https://careers.google.com/jobs/dist/legal/EEOC\_KnowYourRights\_10\_20.pdf) ,Belonging at Google (https://about.google/belonging/) , andHow we hire (https://careers.google.com/how-we-hire/) .

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How this job compares

Set against the 3,007 open Hardware Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 5, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$144–208K/yr
  • California median$146–213K/yr913 salary ranges
  • US median$133–204K/yr2,206 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $176K, is close to the California median midpoint ($178K) — in the middle half of Hardware Engineer salary ranges in California.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 1,213 open Hardware Engineer jobs in California and 3,007 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in California
Experience
This posting asks for at least 8 years of experience; Hardware Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (2,544 postings).
Education
1,752 of the 3,007 open Hardware Engineer jobs (58%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 5, 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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