Technical Program Manager, RF Frequency Compliance

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Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical/Communication Engineering or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in a regulatory testing lab focusing on RF exposure.
• Experience with wireless technologies, including WWAN (GSM/WCDMA/LTE/5G), Wi-Fi/Bluetooth/NFC/UWB/GPS, etc.
  
  

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience as a reviewer in the certification body.
• Working knowledge of rules and regulations related to RF exposure evaluation (e.g., SAR/PD) and RF (CSE/RSE) for different regions (FCC/ISED/CE).
• Understanding of applicable regulatory standards in relation to our products and requirements to obtain global product certification, industry best practices, and certification processes.
  
  

About The Job

Google’s projects, like our users, span the globe and require managers to keep the big picture in focus while being able to dive into the unique engineering challenges we face daily. As a Technical Program Manager at Google, you lead complex, multi-disciplinary engineering projects using your engineering expertise. You plan requirements with internal customers and usher projects through the entire project lifecycle. This includes managing project schedules, identifying risks and clearly communicating them to project stakeholders. You’re equally at home explaining your team’s analyses and recommendations to executives as you are discussing the technical trade-offs in product development with engineers.

Using your extensive technical and leadership expertise, you manage projects of various size and scope, identifying future opportunities, improving processes and driving the technical directions of your programs.

The Radio Frequency (RF) Compliance team is responsible for certifying Google products for global RF regulations. Our team focuses on lab testing which includes FCC/CE/ISED/MIC/NCC/RCM RF, RF exposure, and HAC requirements. In this role, you will manage certification projects, ensure products meet compliance from launch to post market surveillance, while optimizing the performance and 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

• Lead RF product certifications across development teams, testing labs, suppliers, and manufacturing partners.
• Attend the FCC workshop, REDCA, MIC seminar, and participate in the discussion with regulators in the draft regulation rules.
• Define certification test requirements and ensure testing reports are accurate, thorough, and properly accounted for in complete filing packages.
• Communicate certification status and issues in a clear, succinct, and timely manner to all impacted teams.
• Support product development and help shape Google’s best practices and processes certifying new products.
  
  

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 .