About the job

Our thirst for technology is a part of everything we do. The Data Center Engineering team takes the physical design of our data centers into the future. Our lab mirrors a research and development department -- cutting-edge strategies are born, tested and tested again. Along with a team of great minds, you take on complex topics like how we use power or how to run state-of-the-art, environmentally-friendly facilities. You're a visionary who optimizes for efficiencies and never stops seeking improvements -- even small changes that can make a huge impact. You generate ideas, communicate recommendations to senior-level executives and drive implementation alongside facilities technicians.

With your technical expertise, you ensure compliance with codes and standards, develop infrastructure improvements and serve as an expert in your specialty (e.g., cooling, electrical).

In this role, you will provide and prepare all types of documents including: investigative assessments, across multiple layers of large-scale data, critical risk assessment input and critical de-risking recommendations at all business levels, summaries and presentations to facilitate decision making, scope of work (SOW), concept designs, design specifications, detailed integrated design deliverables, drawing markup, milestone reviews, total cost of ownership (TCO) analysis, budget, schedule, system test and acceptance documents, and review and acceptance of as-builts and submittals.

Behind everything our users see online is the architecture built by the Technical Infrastructure team to keep it running. From developing and maintaining our data centers to building the next generation of Google platforms, we make Google's product portfolio possible. We're proud to be our engineers' engineers and love voiding warranties by taking things apart so we can rebuild them. We keep our networks up and running, ensuring our users have the best and fastest experience possible.

Responsibilities

• Define data center system-level, product architecture, and Research and Development, while helping to develop operations and maintenance procedures for systems/processes.

• Innovate custom data center cooling components and systems, guiding these through development and testing to construction and operations for hyperscale data centers and campuses.

• Review Architecture and Engineering (A/E) design consultants’ and manufacturing partners deliverables including drawing sets, specifications, sequence of operations, calculations, models, etc. and provide resolutions in accordance with established engineering standards.

• Review and assist technical development of mechanical systems (both airside and waterside) for hyperscale data centers including campus planning, general layout/arrangements, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and noise modeling, climate data evaluations, thermal analysis, hydraulic analyses, pipe sizing, bin hour analyses, etc.

• Maintain internal design specifications, drawings and standards to the latest configurations, ensuring compliance to the latest regulations.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering, a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.

• 3 years of experience in mission critical facility design and construction environments.

• 3 years of experience in mechanical infrastructure systems.

• Experience in mechanical infrastructure.

• Ability to travel up to 20% of the time as needed.

Preferred qualifications

• Master's degree in Engineering, Business or a related field.

• Professional Engineering license.

• Experience in innovating, designing, construction and handover of mechanical cooling infrastructure, plumbing and fire protection systems.

• Knowledge of mechanical engineering and design principles with a focus on design for medium-scale production, structural beams/elements, and international building codes.