Google

Runs Search and YouTube and builds Gemini AI

Electrical Engineer - Data Center

Power Systems EngineeringConfirmed live in the last 24 hours

Full-timeSydney NSW, AustraliaNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

A bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Power Engineering, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience is required.
At least 10 years of experience in mission-critical facility design and construction environments is required.
Experience in electrical infrastructure is required.
Experience with high-, medium-, and low-voltage systems, including utility grid interfaces, site substations, standby generators, transformers, switchgear, uninterruptible power supply systems, and distribution networks is required.
Ability to travel up to 25% of the time across APAC countries is required.

Responsibilities

Lead technical due diligence assessments for potential new leased and colocation data center facilities across APAC, focusing on the entire electrical system from utility interfaces through high-, medium-, and low-voltage systems to the racks.
Conduct comprehensive reviews of design documents submitted by external architecture and engineering or colocation partners, including basis-of-design documents, detailed electrical drawings, and single-line diagrams.
Lead the field-side request-for-information process, identify potential spatial or electrical conflicts, and provide immediate engineering solutions to avoid rework.
Serve as the APAC electrical engineering authority for design, engineering, and field issues in leased and colocation data center projects.
Review and approve equipment submittals, electrical studies such as short-circuit, arc-flash, protection coordination, and power modeling studies, and transient stability analyses.
Represent the company's design, engineering, and operational standards during technical due diligence, design document reviews, construction submittal reviews, and commissioning.
Evaluate new facility opportunities; support major infrastructure expansion and retrofit projects; optimize colocation deployments; and ensure critical infrastructure is delivered safely, reliably, and efficiently.
Ensure compliance with codes and standards, develop infrastructure improvements, and drive implementation of recommendations alongside facilities technicians.

Desired Qualifications

A master's degree in Engineering, Business, or another relevant field is preferred; a Professional Engineering license is also preferred.
Experience in estimation, electrical design, operation, and commissioning of substations, switchgear, automatic transfer switches, emergency power systems and their control systems, power monitoring, and electrical protection is preferred.
Experience with medium-voltage systems is preferred.
Experience in the design, construction, and commissioning of high-voltage substations, medium- or low-voltage electrical distribution systems, AC/DC systems, and associated power management or supervisory control and data acquisition tools is preferred.
Experience working with cross-discipline teams, such as structural, civil, and IT/Telecom teams, is preferred.
Experience working with data center equipment and environments, with a strong understanding of startup and commissioning processes, is preferred.

Lead technical due diligence assessments for potential new leased and colocation data center facilities across APAC, focusing on the entire electrical system including utility, HV, MV and LV to the racks.
Conduct comprehensive design document reviews (basis of design, detailed electrical drawings, and single-line diagrams) submitted by external A/E or colocation partners.
Lead the field-side RFI process, identifying potential spatial or electrical conflicts and providing immediate engineering solutions to avoid rework.
Serve as the APAC electrical engineering authority for design, engineering and field issues in leased and colocation data center projects.
Review and approve equipment submittals, electrical studies (e.g., short-circuit, arc-flash, protection coordination, power modeling), and transient stability analyses.

Minimum qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Power Engineering, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
10 years of experience in mission critical facility design and construction environments.
Experience in electrical infrastructure.
Experience in high/medium/low-voltage (HV/MV/LV) systems including utility grid interfaces, site substation, standby generators, transformers, switchgears, UPS systems and distribution networks.
Ability to travel up to 25% of the time across APAC countries as required.

Preferred qualifications:

Master's degree in Engineering, Business or other relevant field or a Professional Engineering (PE) license.
Experience in estimation, electrical design, operation, and commissioning of substations, switchgear, ATP/ATS, emergency power systems and their control systems, power monitoring, and electrical protection.
Experience with medium voltage systems.
Experience in design, construction, and commissioning of high voltage substations, medium or low voltage electrical distribution systems, AC/DC systems, and associated power management or SCADA tools.
Experience with cross-discipline teams (e.g., structural, civil, IT/Telecom).
Experience working with data center equipment and environments, with a strong understanding of start up/commissioning processes.

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).

Our multidisciplinary engineering team provides engineering support in the design, construction, and operation of Google's data centers.

As a Senior Electrical Engineer based in Australia, you will drive the engineering outcomes for mission-critical complex third-party development, leased and colocation data center sites across the APAC region. You will serve as the primary technical authority representing the company’s design, engineering, and operational standards during technical due diligence, design document reviews, and construction submittal reviews and commissioning ensuring that complex power infrastructure is built safely and correctly. You will be evaluating new facility opportunities, supporting major infrastructure expansion and retrofit projects, optimizing colocation deployments, and ensuring our critical infrastructure is delivered safely, reliably, and efficiently. Leveraging your deep technical expertise, you will collaborate with cross-functional partner teams, lead technical assessments, and mentor other engineers.

The AI and Infrastructure team is redefining what’s possible. We empower Google customers with breakthrough capabilities and insights by delivering AI and Infrastructure at unparalleled scale, efficiency, reliability and velocity. Our customers include Googlers, Google Cloud customers, and billions of Google users worldwide.

We're the driving team behind Google's groundbreaking innovations, empowering the development of our cutting-edge AI models, delivering unparalleled computing power to global services, and providing the essential platforms that enable developers to build the future. From software to hardware our teams are shaping the future of world-leading hyperscale computing, with key teams working on the development of our TPUs, Vertex AI for Google Cloud, Google Global Networking, Data Center operations, systems research, and much more.

At Google, we have a vision of empowerment and equitable opportunity for all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and commit to building reconciliation through Google’s technology, platforms and people and we welcome Indigenous applicants. Please see our Reconciliation Action Plan for more information.

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Power Engineering, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
10 years of experience in mission critical facility design and construction environments.
Experience in electrical infrastructure.
Experience in high/medium/low-voltage (HV/MV/LV) systems including utility grid interfaces, site substation, standby generators, transformers, switchgears, UPS systems and distribution networks.
Ability to travel up to 25% of the time across APAC countries as required.

About the Company

Google

Runs Search and YouTube and builds Gemini AI

Google runs the world's most used search engine and free services such as YouTube, Android, and Gmail, and it builds the Gemini AI models that work inside them. In 2017, its researchers invented the transformer, the neural network design behind ChatGPT and most other AI chatbots. People use these services without paying, and Google earns most of its money from ads placed beside search results and YouTube videos. Businesses rent computing power and Gemini models through Google Cloud, and Google also sells subscriptions and Pixel phones. Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded Google in 1998 as Stanford PhD students; it is based in Mountain View, California, United States, and is the main business of parent company Alphabet.

Company size: 10,001+
Company stage: IPO
Headquarters: Mountain View, CA
Founded: 1998

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