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Senior Platform Application Engineer, Cloud AI Infrastructure

Google
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Hybrid (Kirkland, WA; Sunnyvale, CA)$188k - $274kFull-timePosted 4w ago

About the role

Platform Application Engineer focused on hardware-infrastructure debugging, customer impact, and integration with Google Cloud AI hardware solutions. Owns deep hardware analysis, defect resolution, and collaboration with engineering, product, and SRE teams to improve AI infrastructure products and services.

Responsibilities

  • Manage customer’s problems through effective diagnosis, resolution, or implementation of new investigation tools to increase productivity on AI/ML infrastructure.
  • Work closely with multiple Product, Quality, and Engineering teams to improve the product, and interact with our Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) teams to understand behaviors.
  • Debug platform hardware and silicon-related issues to drive root-cause resolution and develop permanent improvements.
  • Drive understanding of AI/ML workloads and underlying hardware architectures by troubleshooting, reproducing, determining the cause for customer reported issues, and building tools for faster diagnosis.
  • Act as a consultant and subject matter expert for internal stakeholders in Engineering and Quality organizations to resolve complex deployment and operational obstacles in AI infrastructure environments.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or other technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 6 years of experience with technical infrastructure (deployment, maintenance, and troubleshooting), and quality and reliability of technical infrastructure.
  • 6 years of debug or validation experience with CPU, dGPU, or TPU
  • 5 years of experience with hardware debug (silicon debug, platform debug, IO interface, or memory analysis).
  • Experience debugging technical issues across the stack (hardware faults, low-level software, networking, virtualization, kernel drivers, firmware, or performance)
  • Experience with Linux/Unix systems and debugging issues across the hardware/software boundary on enterprise-grade server infrastructure.

Skills

Required:Linux/UnixHardware debuggingCPU/GPUs/TPUs debugging

Benefits

  • 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 (statutory, where applicable); 5 days/event (discretionary)
  • Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
  • Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
  • Holidays: 13 paid days per year.
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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