Supply Base Engineer, Interconnect at Google

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Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in electrical, mechanical, industrial engineering, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in manufacturing or a related field.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree in electrical, mechanical, or industrial engineering.
• Experience driving process stability and factory yields while influencing supplier leadership on technical roadmaps and engineering trade-offs.
• Experience in high-complexity data center hardware including copper interconnects (e.g., connectors, cable assemblies for high speed, and power applications).
• Experience architecting electro-mechanical and PCBA assembly lines, testing protocols, and transitioning products seamlessly from NPI to high-volume production.
• Experience in SPC, failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA), and root cause corrective actions (RCCA) to identify and mitigate production risks.
• Excellent SQL, scripting, or data visualization skills to translate factory-floor data into insights.

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.

In this role, you will deliver interconnect technologies in a resilient supply chain to enable the scaling of Google’s data center infrastructure while mitigating risk and reducing total cost of ownership.

As the Interconnect Supply Base Engineer (SBE), you will oversee the complete supplier lifecycle, transitioning products from new product introductions (NPI) to high-volume manufacturing. You will bridge the gap between design and industrial production, ensuring the process stability necessary to realize Google's system hardware.

Acting as a technical link between vendors and Google’s cross-functional teams, you will optimize production methods, oversee supplier capacity, and strengthen supply chain resilience while mitigating risks.

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 team 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.

Responsibilities

• Build capacity models to validate supplier output against forecasts and proactively resolve issues in assembly/test processes to streamline production and ensure scalability.
• Identify single points of failure and qualifying second sources for critical sub-components.
• Conduct deep-dive analyses into critical subtier components to secure sufficient capacity and optimize for resiliency to prevent production line-down situations.
• Conduct on-site NPI and production audits to assess manufacturing maturity system controls.
• Analyze supplier process/yield data to optimize processes and partner with supplier quality engineers to drive root-cause analysis and corrective actions. Collaborate on sourcing strategies with key cross-functional stakeholders.