Engineering Manager, Hardware Product Design

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Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: New Taipei, Banqiao District, New Taipei City, Taiwan; Xindian District, New Taipei City, Taiwan.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, related Engineering field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience leading mechanical engineering projects.
• 3 years of experience managing engineering teams.
• Ability to speak and write in English fluently.
  
  

Preferred qualifications:

• Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or related discipline.
• Experience in consumer electronics mechanical architecture and systems design.
• Experience leading a team of technical mechanical engineers.(e.g., Subject matter experts, FEA team).
• Knowledge of technologies used in consumer products (e.g., Plastic Injection Molding, Sheet Metal, Extrusion, Die Casting, Antenna/EE/Sensor design requirement, Materials, Operations, Processes, Sustainability, etc).
• Ability to form effective cross-functional relationships and to communicate product design/mechanical requirements clearly to non-experts.
• Ability to lead a team and deliver multiple projects.
  
  

About The Job

As a member of a fast-paced multi-disciplinary team, you use your creativity and diverse 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.

As an Engineering Manager, you’ll design consumer-focused computing devices. You’ll work on designing enclosures, mechanisms, MLB planning, connectors, and modules. You’ll work closely with cross-functional teams in operations, product, and hardware to define and deliver excellent products.

Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. Only one thing consistently stands in the way between our users and the world’s information—hardware. Our Consumer Hardware team researches, designs, and develops new technologies and hardware to make our user’s interaction with computing faster, more powerful, and seamless. Whether finding new ways to capture and sense the world around us, advancing form factors, or improving interaction methods, our Consumer Hardware team is making people’s lives better through technology.

Responsibilities

• Manage and guide multiple Mechanical Engineers/Product Design project/FEA teams, from concept through mass production.
• Ensure adoption of best practices to create robust and desirable products.
• Build consensus among cross-functional teams and influence executive-level decisions; communicate technical concepts clearly to cross-functional leaders.
• Develop a technology roadmap to support future product development; design for technical depth and innovative ideas and solve issues associated with the product development path using creativity and smart designs.
• Develop a collaborative and inclusive team; identify product issues and drive systematic corrective actions with our component, manufacturing, partners, and internal development teams.
  
  

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 .