Printed Circuit Board, Computer Aided Design Engineer

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Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Electronics or equivalent practical experience
• 5 years of experience in computer-aided Design (CAD) or Printed Circuit Board (PCB) design
• 5 years of experience with Cadence PCB Design tools
• Experience with Allegro Constraints Manager tools
  
  

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with DFM Tools (Valor, CAM350, Fab3000), Allegro Skill scripting, or Simulation tools
• Experience with mechanical design outline formats
• Experience with high-speed and radio frequency (RF) board designs or layouts
• Familiarity with all phases of hardware development, including schematic entry, manually generated constraints, requirements of constraints, and board layout
• Familiarity with high density ball-grid array (BGA), and buried vias
  
  

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.

With your technical expertise, you create test plans for highly complex platforms (e.g., validating the interaction of multiple pieces of equipment at the networking and subsystem levels), and using your deep knowledge of component design characteristics, you diagnose highly complex hardware or software issues.

In this role on the Consumer Hardware team, you will work on fast-paced boards for consumer devices. You’ll work with Hardware Designers and Mechanical Engineers throughout the full product development lifecycle, supporting Printed Circuit Board (PCB) outline, component placement, and routing. You will work as an integral part of the Systems Hardware Development team, interfacing with external fabricators or vendors to apply industry standards, tools, and technologies.

The Google Nest team focuses on hardware, software, and services for the home, ranging from Nest thermostats to Nest smart displays. The Google Nest team develops, designs, and develops new technologies and hardware to make users’ homes more helpful. Our mission is the helpful home: to create a home that cares for the people inside it and the world around it.

Responsibilities

• Execute component placement and routing of boards and Flexible Printed Circuits (FPCs). Participate in design reviews providing expert recommendations as needed.
• Interface with vendors to select and use correct impedance rules, Design for Manufacturing (DFM), Design for Assembly (DFA), and Design for Testability (DFT) rulesets.
• Generate manufacturing files and address any internal or external DFM feedback.
• Work with Hardware Engineers, PCB Designers, Mechanical Designers, and vendors for development and sustaining of products.
• Work with cross-functional teams to setup the mechanical outline, stackup, and constraints of the board.
  
  

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google’s EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form .