Google

Principal Data Center Engineer, Systems Architecture

Google$256K — $356K *
Information Technology
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
  • 15 years of experience in data center physical infrastructure and facility design.
  • Expertise in aligning infrastructure with ML and AI workloads.

Responsibilities

  • Provide leadership for data center designs and global operational strategies.
  • Pioneer modular data center design initiatives for scalable and reproducible architectures.
  • Deliver integration expertise to guide system architecture and performance decision-making.
  • Collaborate on designs emphasizing manufacturability and supply chain efficiency.
  • Analyze operational flows to enhance speed-to-market and capacity serving.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health coverage including medical, dental, and vision.
  • Retirement savings options with company matching contributions.
  • Generous paid time off for work-life balance.
  • Access to employee development programs and training.
  • Equity plan providing ownership stake in the company.
Full Job Description
Minimum qualifications:
  • Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 15 years of experience in data center physical infrastructure architecture, systems engineering, and facility design.
  • Experience aligning data center physical infrastructure with hardware architectures optimized for Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) workloads.

Preferred qualifications:
  • Master's degree or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
  • Experience defining and executing long-term technical strategies or architectural visions for global data center infrastructure or enterprise-class server development teams.
  • Exceptional technical leadership and indirect influence skills, with experience driving architectural direction across matrixed engineering organizations without direct positional authority.
  • Domain expertise in cross-disciplinary systems integration, seamlessly bridging physical facility constraints (e.g., thermal, power, structural) with server hardware and software topologies.
  • Ability to lead and influence senior, highly technical stakeholders and cross-functional executives to align on technical roadmaps.


Responsibilities
  • Provide direction and leadership for data center and equipment designs, cross-system optimizations, and global operational strategies. Lead cross-disciplinary architecture, definition, and development across engineering fields (e.g., electrical, mechanical, thermal, structural, controls, industrial) to optimize system design points.
  • Drive modular data center design initiatives, pioneering scalable, prefabricated, and containerized architectures that reduce deployment timelines and enhance reproducibility.
  • Deliver technical direction, integration expertise, and data analysis for overall system architecture, throughput, and performance, while presenting option tradeoffs to guide executive decision-making.
  • Collaborate across teams and partners to design for manufacturability and supply chain efficiency, accelerating delivery speed while optimizing total cost of ownership.
  • Analyze operational flows and manufacturability to maximize speed-to-market and capacity serving. Drive standardization efforts to achieve global scale, supply chain resilience, and optimized success criteria to include reliability, cost, weight, transportation, installation, and serviceability.


Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $256000 - $356000 (USD) 30% bonus target equity benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google .

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.
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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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