Hardware Reliability Engineer, Devices and Services

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Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, material engineering, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in reliability engineering with consumer products.
• Experience in hardware reliability.
  
  

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience developing and qualifying high complexity, high volume consumer hardware products with various modules.
• Experience in hardware reliability and consumer electronics reliability disciplines (e.g., display, sealing, connector, plastic, PCBA, and materials).
• Knowledge of accelerated life testing theory and methods (development, planning and execution).
• Knowledge of Failure analysis and Data Analysis.
• Excellent communication and problem solving skills.
  
  

About The Job

As a Reliability Engineer, you will play a key role in creating new consumer electronic products that meet a high bar for reliability and performance. You will work closely with the product management and design engineering teams to define standards, specify tests, and then supervise test execution and failure analysis. A broad engineering background and command of statistical methods will help to inform design of new products. Your strong interpersonal and communication skills will be key to ensuring adoption of your technical recommendations.

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.

Responsibilities

• Represent reliability engineering to cross-functional teams (e.g., engineering, operations, quality, etc.).
• Act as tech lead for projects of moderate complexity and impact, manage project priorities and technical resources.
• Lead hardware risks (DFMEA) analysis, and specify test qualification plans, and include these requirements in the early stages of product development.
• Define product usage models, develop reliability test, enhance test coverage to detect potential risk at earlier phases, and estimate AFR (Annual Failure Rate).
• Drive activity across different functions to provide faster time to effective corrective actions.
  

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