Hardware Reliability Engineer III

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Hardware Engineering or equivalent practical experience.
• 6 years of experience in applying Design for Reliability techniques.
• Experience with statistical analysis including Monte Carlo Analysis, DoE, SPC, or Gage R&R (Repeatability and Reproducibility).
• Experience in applying design for reliability techniques (FTA, DFMEA) and reliability modeling techniques (such as Reliability Block Diagram, Weibull, or Reliability Growth Models).

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD in Hardware Engineering, or a related field.
• Experience with Python, MATLAB, LabVIEW or other programming languages for data analysis and hardware tests.
• Experience with failure analysis techniques for electrical, mechanical or optical components.
• Experience in leadership with the ability to summarize and communicate issues to executives.
• Experience working with overseas manufacturing partners and manufacturing processes.
• Ability to travel up to 20% of the time as needed.

About the job

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 the design of new products. Your 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.

Responsibilities

• Qualify reliability performance of materials (metal, polymer, ceramic, etc.) and coatings for consumer products.
• Translate product management reliability goals into appropriate testable objectives.
• Perform statistical data analysis, ALT testing and modeling and risk assessment.
• Oversee the development of reliability performance metrics and test planning, while leading management reviews and end-to-end test execution for all product aspects.
• Drive and lead the failure analysis process for all reliability testing failures with cross-functional internal and external teams.