Google

Field Application Engineer, Cloud AI Infrastructure

Google • $132K — $189K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, MIS, or related field, or equivalent experience.
  • 2+ years of debug/validation experience with CPU, dGPU, or TPU.
  • 2+ years of experience in technical infrastructure deployment, maintenance, and troubleshooting.
  • 2+ years of hardware debug experience (silicon, platform, IO interface, memory analysis).
  • Proficiency in Linux/Unix systems and debugging across hardware/software interfaces.
  • Experience troubleshooting technical issues across hardware, software, networking, and virtualization.

Responsibilities

  • Manage on-call activities related to server and data center CPU/TPU operations and customer issues.
  • Diagnose and resolve customer problems, implementing new tools for AI/ML infrastructure optimization.
  • Collaborate with Product, Quality, and Engineering teams to enhance product quality and performance.
  • Understand AI/ML workloads and hardware architectures through troubleshooting and root cause analysis.
  • Serve as a subject matter expert to assist internal teams and customers in overcoming operational challenges.

Benefits

  • Health, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance.
  • 401(k) with company matching contributions.
  • 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years.
  • 40 hours of sick time per year, increasing to 69 hours/year in Seattle, with additional discretionary sick days.
  • 28-30 weeks of maternity leave and 18 weeks of baby bonding leave.
  • 13 paid holidays each year.
Full Job Description
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X In accordance with Washington state law, we are highlighting our comprehensive benefits package, which is available to all eligible US based employees. Benefits for this role include:
  • Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
  • Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
  • Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
  • Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance
  • Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
  • Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
  • Holidays: 13 paid days per year


Minimum qualifications:
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 2 years of debug or validation experience with CPU, dGPU, or TPU.
  • 2 years of experience with technical infrastructure (deployment or maintenance, and troubleshooting), and with quality and reliability of technical infrastructure.
  • 2 years of experience with hardware debug (e.g., silicon, platform, IO interface, or memory analysis).
  • Experience with Linux/Unix systems and debugging issues across hardware/software boundary on enterprise-grade server infrastructure.
  • Experience troubleshooting and triaging technical issues across the stack (e.g., hardware faults, low-level software, networking, virtualization, kernel drivers, firmware, or performance).

Preferred qualifications:
  • Experience working directly with AI/ML computing hardware, including GPUs or other accelerators.
  • Experience with systems automation, and with systems design and debug.
  • Experience working with vendors or customers.
  • Experience working with distributed systems, and familiarity with common solutions, design patterns, or best practices.
  • Experience with ML frameworks (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch), and understanding of the AI/ML training and inference lifecycle.
  • Advanced understanding of memory and high-speed IO technologies.


About the job
Our AI Infrastructure Engineering Support team is dedicated to ensuring our customers get the most out of their Google Cloud hardware investment. As a Field Application Engineer (Hardware Engineer), you will be an on-site, external-facing trusted advisor to customers, driving hardware analysis, debug, and issue resolution. You will do in-depth research into complex technical issues, troubleshoot critical issues across the platform, and provide expert solutions that help customers innovate with confidence. In this role, you will represent the customer, collaborating with engineering and product teams to drive continuous improvement in our products and services.
Google Cloud accelerates every organization's ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google's cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.
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 about benefits at Google .

Responsibilities
  • Participate in on-call activities and manage server and data center CPU- and TPU-based activities, working with primary responders to resolve customer system observations.
  • Manage customers' problems through effective diagnosis, resolution, or implementation of new investigation tools to increase productivity on AI/ML infrastructure.
  • Work closely with Product, Quality, and Engineering teams to improve the product. Interact with our Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) teams to drive high-quality attainment.
  • Develop an in-depth understanding of AI/ML workloads and underlying hardware architectures by troubleshooting, reproducing, determining the root cause for customer-reported issues, and building tools for faster diagnosis.
  • Act as a consultant and subject matter expert for internal stakeholders in Engineering, Sales, and customer organizations to resolve complex deployment and operational obstacles in AI infrastructure environments.


About Google

Google is a multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products. These include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware. Google was founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University. The company has grown tremendously since then and has become one of the most valuable companies in the world. Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.
Learn more about Google
Size
156,500 employees
Market Cap
$1,115.4 billion
Industry
Net Income
$40.2 billion
Founded
1998
5 Year Trend
+23.3%
Revenue
$182.5 billion
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