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Photonic Engineer, Platforms Infrastructure

Job in Sunnyvale, Santa Clara County, California, 94087, USA
Listing for: Google
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-10-16
Job specializations:
  • Engineering
    Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineer, Systems Engineer, Hardware Engineer
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 132000 - 189000 USD Yearly USD 132000.00 189000.00 YEAR
Job Description & How to Apply Below
  • Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Optics, Physics, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 2 years of experience working with fiber optical components and packaging techniques.
Minimum qualifications
  • Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Optics, Physics, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 2 years of experience working with fiber optical components and packaging techniques.
Preferred qualifications
  • PhD degree in Electrical Engineering, Optics, Physics, or a related field.
  • Experience with digital coherent optical transmission systems.
  • Proficiency in digital signal processing, high-speed optoelectronic circuit simulation or system modeling.
  • Knowledge of large volume high-speed optical transceiver designs and manufacturing.
  • Knowledge of high speed design of electronics and optics.
About the job

Be part of a team that pushes boundaries, developing custom silicon solutions that power the future of Google's direct-to-consumer products. You'll contribute to the innovation behind products loved by millions worldwide. Your expertise will shape the next generation of hardware experiences, delivering unparalleled performance, efficiency, and integration.

Our Platforms Infrastructure Engineering team designs and builds the hardware and software technologies that power all of Google's services. Our computational challenges are complex and unique, enabled by cutting-edge custom hardware designed and made in-house. As a hardware engineer, you will design and build the systems that are the heart of the world's largest and most powerful computing infrastructure. You will see those systems from concept all the way through to high-volume manufacturing.

Your work has the potential to shape the machinery that goes into our cutting-edge data centers, affecting millions of Google users.

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

Responsibilities

Learn more about benefits at Google .

  • Design low-cost and high-speed optical transceivers for ICI communication links.
  • Architect optical systems to scale TPU superpods.
  • Identify, research, evaluate emerging photonic networking technologies.
  • Explore optical technologies to disaggregate and improve the efficiencies of future computing systems.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law.

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