Manufacturing Process Engineer, Devices and Services

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Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, related fields, or equivalent practical experience
• 5 years of experience in a manufacturing engineering role
• Experience managing engineering requirements for vendors and contract manufacturers
• Experience developing processes to scale products, including mechanical fixture designs
  
  

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in a production ramping environment with consumer electronics related products
• Experience working under high-volume manufacturing on NPI (New Product Introduction) or the sustaining phase
• Knowledge of manufacturing monitoring systems (e.g., MES, SPC, etc.) and how to apply manufacturing statistics/design experiments; understanding of SAS software (e.g. JMP, Minitab) and database structure
• Knowledge of the Surface Mount Technology (SMT) process (e.g., heat staking, ultrasonic welding, adhesives, dispensing systems)
• Ability to use simple modifications in 3D modeling software (e.g., Creo, SolidWorks, etc.)
• Ability to develop manufacturing solutions to effectively address challenges using techniques in data mining and analysis
  
  

About The Job

Google has one of the largest and most powerful computing infrastructures in the world. Your team is responsible for providing the manufacturing capability to deliver this state-of-the-art physical infrastructure. As a Manufacturing Engineer, you evaluate the product designs and create the processes, tools and procedures behind Google’s powerful search technology. When vendors build parts for our infrastructure, you’re right there alongside ensuring manufacturing processes are repeatable and controlled. You collaborate with Commodity Managers and Design Engineers to determine Google’s infrastructure needs and product specifications. Your work ensures the various pieces of Google’s infrastructure fit together perfectly and keep our systems humming along smoothly for a seamless user experience.

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

• Provide engineering solutions in both process development and mechanical fixture designs to expedite product manufacturing to mass production; work with agreement manufacturers and vendors to prioritize and solve issues
• Be an expert in design for Design for Manufacturability (DFM) and influence Product Design and Electrical Engineering (EE) to improve manufacturability for yield and reliability
• Collaborate with Product Design engineers and EE to ensure robust design for manufacturing
• Collaborate cross-functionally with design and commodity teams in down-selection, sourcing, qualification, and integration of components and vendors used in Google’s products
• Work with Quality and Reliability teams to define requirements for shipments
  
  

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 .