
Hardware Systems Test Engineer, Networking, Google Cloud
Sunnyvale, CAJob$132–189K/yrSeen 3w agoSeen in employer's feed 1 day ago
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Job overview
Google’s Platforms Infrastructure Engineering team seeks a Hardware Systems Test Engineer to validate, bring up, and qualify complex hardware systems from early prototypes through deployment readiness. The role partners with silicon designers, system architects, and network test engineers to investigate hardware anomalies and build automated testbeds. The work supports the performance, efficiency, and reliability of infrastructure used in Google data centers.
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Hardware Systems Test Engineer, Networking, Google Cloud
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Minimum qualifications:
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Bachelor's degreein Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
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2 years of experience working in a hardware or data center technical environment.
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2 years of experience with Linux, networking, network troubleshooting, failure analysis.
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Experience with diagnosis, data center server, debugging/troubleshooting.
Preferred qualifications:
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Master's degree or Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
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5 years of validation engineering experience focused on hyperscale servers, high-performance computing, or data center platform infrastructure.
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Proven experience building automated hardware test suites and integrating test benches into continuous integration (CI/CD) pipelines.
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Strong cross-functional technical leadership skills with a proven track record of driving complex hardware anomalies to resolution.
About the job
Platforms Infrastructure Engineering (PIE) delivers high-performance compute, storage, and networking hardware infrastructure powering next-generation system platforms. As a Hardware Test Engineer within PIE, you will lead the validation, bring-up, and qualification of complex hardware systems from early design phase prototypes to deployment readiness.
In this role, you will partner closely with silicon designers, system architects, and network test engineers. You will help drive rigorous validation plans, isolate, troubleshoot and debug board-level and system-level anomalies, and build automated testbeds to ensure our platform infrastructure meets high standards for performance, efficiency, and reliability.
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: $132000 - $189000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits
Learn more aboutbenefits at Google (https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/benefits/) .
Responsibilities
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Help design and build complex system-level testbeds and maintain lab space, tools and infrastructure.
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Diagnose hardware, silicon, and system level issues using software tools to isolate root causes across hardware, firmware, and signal interfaces.
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Design and maintain automated test scripts and automation tools to enable continuous validation and regression coverage. Generate implementation plans and provide technical expertise and guidance during deployment activities.
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Collaborate with cross-functional teams to address hardware bugs, and ensure seamless resolution.
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Anticipate and resolve problems by applying knowledge and skills, escalating design, manufacturing and product test issues to other people within the organization when appropriate.
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How this job compares
Set against the 480 open Validation Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 5, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$132–189K/yr
- California median$141–210K/yr102 salary ranges
- US median$118–169K/yr248 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $161K, is 9% below the California median midpoint ($176K) — in the middle half of Validation Engineer salary ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 160 open Validation Engineer jobs in California and 480 across the US. 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in California
- Apple24 open
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 2 years of experience — less than three in four Validation Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 360 postings).
- Education
- 270 of the 480 open Validation Engineer jobs (56%) 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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