Hardware Systems Engineer, Consumer Hardware

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Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent practical experience
• 5 years of experience in consumer electronics/embedded system design
• Experience with prototype bring-up and debugging, functional verification, and manufacturing support. Experience working within a lab-based environment and in circuit board level design engineering.
• Ability to travel up to 20% of the time.
  
  

Preferred qualifications:

• 8 years of experience in system development within consumer electronics/embedded system design.
• Experience with embedded systems, processor selection, communication protocols, analog/sensor/low-power system design, and/or RF technologies.
• Experience with system integration of sensor technology.
• Experience working with Original Equipment Manufacturer, Original Device Manufacturer, Joint Development Manufacturer, and other partners.
• Experience with software development (i.e., firmware and system level) and with high-speed design and standard RF/WiFi interfaces at chipset, baseband, and antenna integration levels.
• Understanding of the product development process for mass-volume production design and design for manufacturing/test.
  
  

About The Job

Our computational challenges are so big, complex and unique we can’t just purchase off-the-shelf hardware, we’ve got to make it ourselves. Your team designs and builds the hardware, software and networking technologies that power all of Google’s services. As a Hardware Engineer, you design and build the systems that are the heart of the world’s largest and most powerful computing infrastructure. You develop from the lowest levels of circuit design to large system design and see those systems all the way through to high volume manufacturing. Your work has the potential to shape the machinery that goes into our cutting-edge data centers affecting millions of Google users.

With your technical expertise, you lead projects in multiple areas of expertise (i.e., engineering domains or systems) within a data center facility, including construction and equipment installation/troubleshooting/debugging with vendors.

Google engineers develop technologies that change how users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. As a Hardware Systems Engineer, you will develop new consumer hardware products for our users. You will be able to adapt quickly and demonstrate a passion for addressing new problems as we continue to push technology forward. In this role, you will advance form factors or improve interaction methods.

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

• Evaluate and select components and new technologies for products based on product vision and customer experiences.
• Design, develop, and/or review consumer hardware systems and sub-components. Set factory test requirements, assist in software bring-up, and travel on-site to the manufacturer to ensure the design is built and tested successfully.
• Create system specifications and plan/lead validation of designs. Lead complete functional verification, signal characterization, power modeling/testing, and system coexistence testing.
• Drive resolution of cross-functional issues including those related to architecture (e.g., performance and power consumption), production (e.g., quality, failure analysis, and manufacturing), and development (e.g., schematic design/review, PCB layout, and overall system integration).
• Work with and manage suppliers/manufacturing partners to establish mutually beneficial relationships for future product designs.
  
  

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