Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Industrial, Mechanical, or Product Engineering, Business Administration, or equivalent practical experience.
- 5 years of experience in product quality development or manufacturing engineering, and best practices within mobile or consumer electronics products.
- Experience in Product Quality Control System, Six Sigma, JMP, tolerance study, and cosmetic criteria/inspections.
Preferred qualifications:
- 3 years of experience in a Product Quality Engineer, Pixel Phone position, or equivalent experience.
- Experience preventing quality loss in the early stage of manufacturing, implementing quality escalation processes, and product improvement with CM partners.
- Experience in Mechanical and Electrical Design For Quality (DFQ), Excellence (DFX), Manufacturability (DFM), Test (DFT), and Design for Reliability (DFR), etc.
- Experience with gauge metrology for Cp/Cpk (Process Capability Analysis), FAI (First Article Inspection), and equipment Gauge Repeatability and Reproducibility, etc.
- Experience in Surface Mount Technology (SMT), Printed Circuit Board Assembly (PCBA), system assembly/sub-assembly Manufacturing processes with Fixture design and implementation.
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.
As a Product Quality Engineer, you will evaluate the product designs and create the quality processes, tools, and procedures to help continuously improve the customer experience by improving product quality at the manufacturing site. You will work very closely with Product Management, Product Design, System Engineering, Product Operations, and Supply Chain teams.
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
- Define and implement Phone Product Cosmetic Specifications and design Final Assembly Test Process (FATP) Quality Cosmetic Station Inspection Plan ensuring specifications are met.
- Lead and drive Material Functional, Dimensional, and Cosmetic Quality Excellence via designing Quality Engineering management as well as Capital Equipment budgeting function, dimension, and cosmetic control.
- Manage and address supplier quality issue escalation, issues Failure Analysis (FA), Root Cause and Corrective Action (RCCA) from First Article Inspection (FAI), Outgoing Quality Control (OQC), and On-Going Reliability (ORT), yield fallouts, customer complaints, and field failures, during NPI/MP (Mass Production) phases.
- Align Contract Manufacturer (CM) Incoming Quality control (IQC) with Mechanical parts Supplier OQC plans and measurement techniques.
- Participate in Design for Quality (DFQ) review with Design/Manufacturing Partners, including Mechanical/Module Supplier Development Engineering (SDE).