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Google · 4 hours ago

Hardware System Validation Engineer, Pixel Fuel Gauge

Mountain View, CA

Full-time

Onsite

Entry, Mid Level

$126K/yr - $181K/yr

2+ years exp

Google is developing custom silicon solutions to power the future of their direct-to-consumer products. The Hardware System Validation Engineer will contribute to innovation by executing validation strategies and ensuring product quality through electrical and system-level validation.

AppsArtificial Intelligence (AI)Cloud StorageSearch EngineSEO

Growth Opportunities

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Execute characterization of battery fuel gauge performance and core functionality at both module and system levels

Develop validation strategies and plans, execute electrical/system-level validation to catch and fix design issues through build cycles to improve the overall product quality and meet the launch schedule

Develop integrated solutions to resolve the system-level issues, such as Peak Power Management, Battery and Fuel Gauge, SoC throttling policies, and System on a Chip/Hardware (SoC/HW) stability issues in a form factor and low power device

Establish lab and factory test capabilities which include test plan, automation, test fixture/station, failure analysis, yield tracking, test cycle optimization, etc

Drive the validation/test solutions for adopting new technologies into Google products to improve test coverage/efficiency

Qualification

Device bring-upPythonCommunication protocolsStatistical analysisTest infrastructureElectrical EngineeringComputer EngineeringPhysics

Required

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience

2 years of experience working in a silicon design and debug technical environment, or 1 year of experience with an advanced degree

Preferred

Master's degree or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics, or a related field

Experience in device bring-up and triage

Experience in Python, C or other scripting languages, developing test infrastructure and creating test frameworks for system power or battery management

Experience with communication protocols such as I2C, SPMI, USB-PD

Experience in deriving Design of Experiments (DOEs) and statistical analysis for categorizing and capturing improvement/regression

Benefits

Bonus

Equity

Benefits

Company

Google

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Google specializes in internet-related services and products, including search, advertising, and software. It is a sub-organization of Alphabet.

Founded in 1998

Mountain View, California, USA

10001+ employees

https://www.google.com

H1B Sponsorship

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Trends of Total Sponsorships

2025 (8763)

2024 (8872)

2023 (9682)

2022 (11626)

2021 (9109)

2020 (9785)

Funding

Current Stage

Public Company

Total Funding

$26.1M

Key Investors

Kleiner Perkins,Sequoia CapitalAndy Bechtolsheim

2004-08-19IPO

1999-06-07Series Unknown· $25M

1998-11-01Angel· $1M

Leadership Team

Sundar Pichai

CEO

Thomas Kurian

CEO - Google Cloud

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