About the job

Google's custom-designed machines make up one of the largest and most powerful computing infrastructures in the world. The Hardware Testing Engineering team ensures that this cutting-edge equipment is reliable. In the R&D lab, you design test equipment for prototypes of our machinery and develop the protocols used to scale these tests for the entire global team. Working closely with design engineers, you give input on designs to improve our hardware until you're sure it meets Google's standards of quality and reliability.
In this role, you will evaluate the product designs and create the processes, tools, and procedures behind Google’s search technology. You will collaborate with Commodity Managers and Design Engineers to plan Google’s infrastructure needs and product specifications. You will join the team responsible for setting and managing the quality and reliability standards for the Mechanical Infrastructure across Google. You will be improving the quality of Mechanical assemblies during New Product Introduction (NPI) and maintaining it throughout its life cycle. You will work with the tools, processes and technologies used to assess product quality and reliability.

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.

Responsibilities

• Participate in New Product Introduction (NPI) projects to ensure supplier readiness and the launch of new mechanical components and assemblies.

• Ensure the quality and reliability of mechanical assemblies, including infrastructure racks, shelves, and other mechanical parts.

• Develop and maintain supplier quality scorecards and performance metrics, and track mechanical failures and drive root cause and corrective action.

• Conduct pre-production reviews at supplier locations, review and approve supplier process flow diagrams, control plans, and other quality related documentation.

• Work with suppliers to share their mechanical assembly parts from the fleet, and to drive return material authorization, corrective action requests, and failure analysis.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

• 8 years of experience as a Mechanical Quality, Reliability, Manufacturing or Product Engineer.

• Experience with mechanical (e.g., sheet metal, plastic) and manufacturing process.

• Experience with quality process and tools (e.g., supplier audit/qualification, Quality Management System (QMS), process capability assessment, process control, etc.).

• Ability to travel up to 30% of the time internationally.

Preferred qualifications

• Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or in a Thermal related field, or equivalent practical experience.

• Certifications in American Society for Quality (e.g., CQE, CQM, CRE, or CQA).

• 10 years of experience in Quality/Reliability and thermal technology.

• Experience with data analytics.

• Ability to make data-motivated decisions.