
Principal, Hardware Power Engineering
Sunnyvale, CAJob$275–382K/yrSeen 4 days agoSeen in employer's feed 4 days ago
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Google’s Power Engineering Technical Lead will drive power delivery and power management solutions for next-generation data center hardware, from architecture through high-volume production and deployment. The role integrates solutions for ASICs, TPUs, GPUs, networking, servers, and storage, while addressing complex technical trade-offs and fleet-wide challenges. It also leads supplier and ecosystem engagements to support high-quality, high-yield manufacturing.
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Principal, Hardware Power Engineering
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Minimum qualifications:
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Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
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15 years of experience working in hardware, power delivery design, including AC/DC, DC/DC converter design and board bring up and debugging.
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Experience architecting and shipping volume hardware products directly to the data center.
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10 years of experience in technical leadership in technical infrastructure with experience in data center power delivery system design.
Preferred qualifications:
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PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
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Knowledge in data center power delivery system design, including energy storage.
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Knowledge in power electronics fundamentals and various power conversion designs for data center power delivery, including modeling and simulation
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Ability to navigate ambiguity, resolve complex technical trade-offs, and drive consensus across large, globally distributed engineering organizations
About the job
As the Power Engineering Technical Lead, you will drive the technical power delivery solutions that will result in significant product performance improvements that encompass our next generation rack to chip power delivery infrastructure. Operating at the highest levels of technical leadership, you will be the driving force behind the integration of complex power delivery and power management solutions to enable Google’s ASICs, TPUs, GPUs, and advanced networking hardware into our Data Center roadmap.
In this role, you will be a power engineering leader who has developed highly innovative power solutions, while delivering them at high-velocity and high quality. You will be an innovative technical leader that uses direct deep technical expertise in power design, stays up-to-date with the leading industry technologies, and delivers innovative power delivery solutions and products from concept to high volume production.
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: $275000 - $382000 (USD) + 30% bonus target + equity + benefits
Learn more aboutbenefits at Google (https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/benefits/) .
Responsibilities
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Lead and develop innovative and competitive power delivery and power management solutions for Google’s data center hardware spanning ML TPU, GPU, Networking, Server compute, Storage, and any additional computing hardware and supporting solutions for data centers.
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Drive power delivery, power management, and energy storage solutions from early architecture through to volume production and data center deployment. Anticipate, troubleshoot, and mitigate complex, fleet-wide deployment challenges in a high-demand environment.
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Steer technical engagements and partnerships with suppliers and ecosystem partners to ensure high-quality, high-yield volume manufacturing.
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Serve as the ultimate technical authority on system-level performance, heavily leveraging your deep expertise in managing complex trade-offs.
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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 1,050 open Hardware Engineering jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 3, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$275–382K/yr
- California median$172–245K/yr221 salary ranges
- US median$146–245K/yr759 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $329K, is 57% above the California median midpoint ($209K) — in the top quarter of Hardware Engineering salary ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 344 open Hardware Engineering jobs in California and 1,050 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in California
- Apple36 open
- Cisco24 open
- Anduril Industries22 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 15 years of experience — more than three in four Hardware Engineering postings that state a minimum ask for (median 7 years, across 662 postings).
- Education
- 345 of the 1,050 open Hardware Engineering jobs (33%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 3, 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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