Hardware Lead, Fitbit

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Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, a related Engineering discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• 3 years of experience working with Original Design Manufacturer (ODM), Contract Manufacturer (CM), or Joint Development Manufacturing (JDM), designing and ramping consumer hardware products.
• 3 years of experience in leading teams and bringing consumer and electro-mechanical products to production.
  
  

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in exporting, interpreting and presenting data to key stakeholders and executive management.
• Ability to work in a dynamic and fast-paced environment.
• Ability to communicate with cross-functional team members and collaborate to achieve project goals, and contribute to the engineering community.
• Ability to travel domestically and internationally up to 25% of the time as needed.
  
  

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.

In this technical leadership role, you will lead a cross-functional team of hardware and product design engineers from concept to production, shaping the product definition, driving execution, and representing the team. You will ensure that the product meets all technical objectives and stays aligned with the long-term department strategy.

Fitbit’s wide range of innovative products, including smartwatches, trackers, and a smart scale, help people lead healthier, more active lives by empowering them with data, inspiration, and guidance to reach their health and fitness goals. Coupled with our leading software and Fitbit Premium, our immersive platform experience delivers personalized experiences, insights, and guidance to support our users’ health and wellness. Fitbit’s mission has always been to help make everyone in the world healthier and now, as part of Google we’ll be able to make health even more accessible to everyone.

Responsibilities

• Lead a cross-functional engineering team that will develop innovative designs with consumer appeal to meet size, performance, cost, time to market, and quality targets.
• Ensure cross-functional collaboration and drive team focus on critical tasks, key schedule events/deliverables, builds, milestone, etc.
• Create and maintain the high level hardware schedule, work closely with the overall progress schedule to establish build dates and ensure it aligns with the overall program schedule.
• Drive and communicate decision making through documents as needed for critical decisions, representing the team in executive level meetings.
• Identify and communicate product performance risks, trade-offs, escalate and implement risk mitigation strategies.
  
  

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 .