Robotics Automation Lead, Platforms Infrastructure
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 years of professional experience in mechatronics engineering and robotics product development. Experience in shipping full-stack robotics systems.
- Experience in robotics industry, robotics applications development and turning R&D into deployed, real world systems.
- Experience in robotic control, planning, kinematics, and mechatronic systems.
Preferred qualifications:
- 8 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.
- Experience in project management or leadership roles, including the experience leading cross-functional teams and driving projects to successful completion.
- Experience with collaborative robot systems and human-robot interaction design considerations.
- Experience with embedded systems (e.g., RTOS, microcontrollers, FPGA), sensor fusion, and actuator control.
- Familiarity with motion control systems and robotics programming languages (e.g. Robot Operating System) or similar frameworks.
About the job
Our Physical Infrastructure Robotics team is 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. 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 the driving force 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.
The US base salary range for this full-time position is $174,000-$258,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.
Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.
Responsibilities
- Set the outlook for our robotics stack- guiding architecture, systems design, and integration. 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.
- Lead 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 facilitate 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 lifecycle, addressing inquiries and resolving issues as they arise.
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