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 Product Architecture Lead of Pixel Advanced Architecture is responsible for identifying, integrating and validating new technologies for the benefit of future generations of Pixel products. You will manage a team of electrical and product design engineers in the early definition of new products and new technologies. You will have the technical experience to discuss engineering trade-offs across multiple disciplines including antennas, cameras, sensors, displays and batteries. You will validate new technologies to ensure they offer reliability and will partner with the global NPI engineering teams as they bring these future products to market-offering ongoing support and bringing lessons learned back into the definition process of next-generation devices.

Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. Our Devices & Services team combines the best of Google AI, Software, and Hardware to create radically helpful experiences for users. We research, design, and develop new technologies and hardware to make our user's interaction with computing faster, seamless, and more powerful. Whether finding new ways to capture and sense the world around us, advancing form factors, or improving interaction methods, the Devices & Services team is making people's lives better through technology.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $221,000-$311,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

• Balance exploration with plausibility in the earliest definition of future product concepts. Work across all Pixel-branded product lines including Phones, Foldables, Watches and Buds.

• Promote cross-functional teams on the product goals and generate excitement around solving difficult technical problems. Communicate key updates to leadership throughout the organization and build consensus around the paths forward.

• Collaborate with Product Management and Industrial Design on the initial trade-off space of new products and iterate to surface engaging propositions for the next generation of devices.

• Anticipate product-level trade-offs such as battery life, cost, reliability and antenna performance versus industrial design. Prototype and validate the design options to converge on an optimal implementation for new products.

• Work with NPI engineering leadership to transition new product architectures for business.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Mechanical, Physics, Computer Engineering, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

• 12 years of experience in product engineering for consumer electronics.

• 5 years of experience managing an engineering team.

Preferred qualifications

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

• 5 years of experience managing a multidisciplinary team distributed across multiple global locations.

• Experience in shipping multiple consumer electronics products, in a lead or principal engineer role.

• Knowledge of common technologies used in consumer products (e.g., PCBA fabrication, plastic injection molding, sheet metal stamping, batteries, displays, camera systems).

• Excellent communication skills, and ability to present to executive leadership.