Google

Runs Search and YouTube and builds Gemini AI

Senior Robotics Automation Engineer - Platforms Infrastructure

Robotics & Autonomous SystemsConfirmed live in the last 24 hours

Full-timeRedmond, WA, USAIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

A bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
Five years of experience in mechatronics engineering and robotics product development.
Experience shipping full-stack robotics systems.
Experience in the robotics industry and robotics applications development, including turning research and development into deployed, real-world systems.
Experience in robotic control, planning, kinematics, and mechatronic systems.

Responsibilities

Set goals for robotics stack architecture, systems design, and integration; collaborate with executive leadership to align robotics initiatives, roadmaps, and engineering execution with business goals.
Build and lead high-performing engineering teams across mechanical, electrical, embedded, and software disciplines within robotics engineering.
Lead hardware architecture reviews with software and systems teams to identify and address potential gaps in technical design, ensuring overall solution performance and scalability.
Facilitate and participate in design reviews to address technical challenges during development; document design decisions, specifications, test procedures, and results to support knowledge sharing and project continuity.
Provide technical support and guidance to internal teams and external partners, including solution vendors and contract manufacturers, throughout the development life cycle; address inquiries and resolve issues.
Lead across multiple robotics engineering disciplines to develop solutions for data center operations.
Collaborate with hardware, software, and systems engineers to ensure seamless product integration and integration of solutions into infrastructure operations.

Desired Qualifications

Five years of experience with the overall process for developing robotics products, including identifying issues and considerations for delivering a robotics product.
Experience with sensor integration and calibration for robotics applications, including vision systems, LiDAR, and inertial measurement units.
Experience in project management or leadership roles, including leading cross-functional teams and driving projects to successful completion.
Experience with collaborative robot systems, human-robot interaction design considerations, embedded systems such as real-time operating systems, microcontrollers, and field-programmable gate arrays, sensor fusion, and actuator control.
Experience building hardware and embedded architectures that support state estimation, simultaneous localization and mapping, and proprioception sensor pipelines, while ensuring compliance with embodied AI safety standards across distributed fleet orchestration environments.
Familiarity with motion control systems and robotics programming languages such as Robot Operating System or similar frameworks.

Set the goal for robotics stack-guiding architecture, systems design, and integration, and collaborate closely with executive leadership to align on Robotics initiatives and roadmap, engineering execution with business goals.
Build and lead high-performing engineering teams across mechanical, electrical, embedded, and software disciplines within Robotics engineering.
Lead hardware architecture reviews with software and system teams to identify and address potential gaps in the technical design, ensuring the overall solution performance and scalability.
Facilitate and participate in design reviews to address technical challenges during the development, document design decisions, specifications, test procedures, and results, maintaining clear and organized records to improve knowledge sharing and project continuity.
Provide technical support and guidance to internal teams and external partners (including solution vendors and Contract Manufacturers) throughout the development life-cycle, addressing inquiries and resolving issues as they arise.

Minimum qualifications:

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
5 years of experience in mechatronics engineering and robotics product development.
Experience in shipping full-stack robotics systems.
Experience in robotics industry, robotics applications development and experience turning Research and Development (R&D) into deployed, real world systems.
Experience in robotic control, planning, kinematics, and mechatronic systems.

Preferred qualifications:

5 years of experience with the overall process for developing robotics products, including experience identifying issues and considerations for delivering a robotics product.
Experience with sensor integration and calibration for robotics applications, including vision systems, LiDAR, and inertial measurement units (IMUs).
Experience in project management or leadership roles, including the experience in leading cross-functional teams and driving projects to successful completion.
Experience with collaborative robot (cobot) systems, human-robot interaction (HRI) design considerations, embedded systems (RTOS, microcontrollers, FPGA), sensor fusion, and actuator control.
Experience building hardware and embedded architectures that support state estimation, SLAM, and proprioception sensor pipelines, while ensuring compliance with embodied AI safety standards across distributed fleet orchestration environments.
Familiarity with motion control systems and robotics programming languages such as ROS (Robot Operating System) or similar frameworks.

In this role, as a Robotics Automation Hardware Engineer on Google's Physical infrastructure Robotics team, you will join a team dedicated to implementing robotics technologies and solutions to transform operations inside our data centers. You will lead across multiple robotics engineering disciplines to develop innovative and industry-leading solutions to enable next-generation data center operations. In this role, you will collaborate closely with hardware, software and system engineers to ensure seamless product integration, and integration of the solutions into our infrastructure operations.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 behind Google's groundbreaking innovations, empowering the development of 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.Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $159000 - $230000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google.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

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
5 years of experience in mechatronics engineering and robotics product development.
Experience in shipping full-stack robotics systems.
Experience in robotics industry, robotics applications development and experience turning Research and Development (R&D) into deployed, real world systems.
Experience in robotic control, planning, kinematics, and mechatronic systems.

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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