Senior Hardware Reliability Engineer

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Materials Science, Electrical Engineering, or Mechanical Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• 6 years of experience as a reliability or hardware engineer.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, Chemical Engineering, a related field or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience with overseas manufacturing partners and manufacturing processes.
• Experience with Python, MATLAB, LabVIEW or other programming languages for data analysis and hardware test.
• Experience in applying design for reliability (DfR) techniques (DFMEA, Statistics) and other reliability modeling techniques.
• Experience in statistical analysis including Monte Carlo Analysis, DoE, SPC, Gage R and R.
• Experience with failure analysis techniques for electrical, mechanical, audio/acoustics, display, touch, or optical components.

As a Reliability Engineer, you will play a key role in creating new consumer electronic products that meet a high bar for reliability and performance. You will work closely with the product management and design engineering teams to define standards, specify tests, and then supervise test execution and failure analysis. A broad engineering background and command of statistical methods will help to inform design of new products. Your strong interpersonal and communication skills will be key to ensuring adoption of your technical recommendations. 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.

• Translate product management reliability goals into appropriate testable goals.
• Develop reliability performance metrics and guide management reviews to review progress against those metrics.
• Guide reliability test planning, methodology and execution for all aspects of the product.
• Drive the failure analysis process for all failures discovered during reliability testing.
• Guide the failure analysis process with internal and external cross-functional teams for all failures discovered during reliability testing.