Google Recruitment 2026 – Network Operations Residency Program

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Telecommunications, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Internship experience in network engineering, data center, system administration, or another technical capacity.
• Experience working with networking fundamentals (e.g., TCP/IP, ARP, IP Tables, routing) or Unix systems administration, including coding (e.g., Java, C/C++) or scripting in shell or Python.

Preferred qualifications:

• Ability to adjust to changing priorities and make quick decisions with limited information.
• Excellent leadership and project management skills, with the ability to work well in a team environment with a focus on knowledge sharing and collaboration.
• Excellent organizational, communication, and time management skills.

Responsibilities:

• Gain exposure to network engineering and technical program management roles.
• Collaborate with Googlers to plan, deliver, and operate networking infrastructure for Google.
• Contribute to creative, innovative solutions that might include introducing better tools and automation, or improving processes to make the team’s work easier.

About The Job:

• The Network Operations Residency Program (NORP) is a 16-month rotational program for full-time Nooglers designed to develop Network Implementation Engineering (NIE) talent within the Google Cloud’s Global Infrastructure organization. Residents gain experience across two distinct NIE focused rotations and transition into permanent Network Implementation Engineering roles upon successful completion.
• NORP is designed to build future leaders and jumpstart your career in networking technology. We are looking for candidates that demonstrate strong network fundamentals and project management skills and are excited to solve unique problems.
• Google is an engineering company at heart. We hire people with a broad set of technical skills who are ready to take on some of technology’s greatest challenges and make an impact on users around the world. At Google, engineers not only revolutionize search, they routinely work on scalability and storage solutions, large-scale applications and entirely new platforms for developers around the world. From Google Ads to Chrome, Android to YouTube, social to local, Google engineers are changing the world one technological achievement after another.

Preferred qualifications:

• Internship work, work experience, or personal project experience outside the classroom in Hardware, Electrical Engineering or Mechanical Engineering.
• Experience in one or more of the following areas: SoC/ASIC Design, Design Verification, Physical Design, Design for Testability.
• Experience with Verilog/HDL or System Verilog coding.

Responsibilities

• Work with the SoC teams to develop power and performance optimized chips.
• Contribute to the design, verification, and silicon implementation of ASICs and SoCs.
• Work on design concepts around CPUs, image processing, machine learning, computer vision, security, and video.
• Collaborate with teams in automating the SoC design flows.

About the job:

• Google engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. As a member of an extraordinarily creative, motivated and talented team, you develop new products that are used by millions of people. We need our engineers to be versatile and passionate to take on new problems as we continue to push technology forward. If you get excited about building new things and working across discipline lines, then our team might be your next career step.
• Google’s Consumer Hardware Silicon division builds chips optimized for Google-branded consumer devices. Our product areas include imaging, machine learning, video, and security. We aim to build a team with talent that resonates with Google’s culture of innovation and fun.
• As a Silicon Engineer, you will design, develop, and deploy consumer hardware. As a member of a fast-paced multi-disciplinary team, you will use your creativity and various range of engineering experience to explore solutions to a variety of engineering problems. Additionally, you will participate in the design, analysis, and prototyping of new concepts. You will also work in a manufacturing and product oriented development environment and collaborate with vendors and outside sources in order to see parts through to manufacture.
• The Platforms and Devices team encompasses Google’s various computing software platforms across environments (desktop, mobile, applications), as well as our first party devices and services that combine the best of Google AI, software, and hardware. Teams across this area research, design, and develop new technologies to make our user’s interaction with computing faster and more seamless, building innovative experiences for our users around the world.