Mechanical Engineer, Cooling System - Singapore

Product area

Behind everything our users see online is the architecture built by the Technical Infrastructure team to keep it running. From developing and maintaining our data centers to building the next generation of Google platforms, we make Google's product portfolio possible. We're proud to be our engineers engineers and love voiding warranties by taking things apart so we can rebuild them. We keep our networks up and running, ensuring our users have the best and fastest experience possible.

Job description

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).

Additional job description

Google is transforming how data centers are planned, designed, and built from custom, stick-built, multi-year construction monoliths to productized, manufactured, modular, just-in-time deployments of fungible capacity.

As a Mechanical Engineer, you will develop liquid cooling solutions for our advanced accelerator roadmap. You will play a crucial role in driving the thermal performance and efficiency of our high-power computing systems. You will work in a dynamic environment, collaborating with cross-functional teams to design, analyze, and optimize chip-to-chiller cooling systems.

Qualifications

Job responsibilities

• Design custom hyper-scale cooling components and systems (e.g., airside and waterside), guiding them from initial development and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) modeling through to construction and operational handover.
• Partner with electrical, networking, and procurement teams to resolve interrelated system issues and ensure thermal designs integrate seamlessly with overall data center architecture.
• Oversee design consultants and manufacturing partners, performing reviews of drawing sets, specifications, and sequence of operations to ensure compliance with Google standards.
• Analyze systems for redundancies and Single Points of Failure (SPOFs), utilizing Reliability and Maintainability (RAM) models to verify infrastructure up-time and safety.
• Work with cross-functional teams in construction, design and change management to compile, prioritize/triage and process construction originated engineering issues for standard design/product improvements.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 3 years of experience in the design, construction, and delivery of mechanical cooling infrastructure, including plumbing and fire protection systems.
• Ability to travel up to 20% of the time to visit data center sites or manufacturing partners.

Preferred qualifications

• 5 years of experience in mechanical infrastructure systems, focusing on high-density environments.
• Experience performing advanced thermal analysis and hydraulic modeling for liquid and air-cooling topologies.
• Experience drafting and maintaining internal design specifications, standards, and global configuration documents.
• Experience utilizing solidworks or equivalent 3D modeling software for the development of mechanical components.
• Experience working within an organization, with the ability to communicate technical findings to both engineering and executive stakeholders.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to work in teams and organizations.