About the job

As a member of a fast-paced multi-disciplinary team, you use your creativity and range of engineering experience to explore solutions to a variety of engineering problems. As a mechanical engineer, you participate in the design, analysis, and prototyping of new concepts. You 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.

Responsibilities

• Complete failure analysis for manufacturing and reliability issues, brainstorm potential solutions, and implement improved designs.

• Oversee suppliers of subsystems/components from concept to mass production.

• Design subsystems/components from concept to production.

• Design for function, reliability, human factors, manufacturability, and cosmetic requirements.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Product Design, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.

• 5 years of experience with consumer electronic products.

• 5 years of experience with failure analysis, root cause, or solution implementation at contract manufacturer.

Preferred qualifications

• Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Product Design, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.

• 10 years of experience with consumer electronic products.

• Experience communicating across several engineering teams within Asia and the United States.

• Experience shipping multiple handheld consumer electronic products.

• Knowledge in multiple manufacturing methods used in consumer products.