Staff Hardware Engineer, Google Beam

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 6 years of experience in various display technologies (e.g., OLED, micro-LED, LCD) and their trade-offs in volume products.
• Ability to travel as needed to support bring-up at factories.

Preferred qualifications:

• PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience in root cause analysis of complex system-level failures, especially in deployed products.
• Experience with power delivery and management in portable or battery-powered devices.
• Experience in collaborating with suppliers or vendors to define technical roadmaps or troubleshoot manufacturing issues.

About the job

Be part of a team that pushes boundaries, developing custom silicon solutions that power the future of Google's direct-to-consumer products. You'll contribute to the innovation behind products loved by millions worldwide. Your expertise will shape the next generation of hardware experiences, delivering unparalleled performance, efficiency, and integration.

As a Staff Hardware Engineer on the Google Beam team, you will be a key technical leader in designing and delivering hardware systems for our next-generation communications products. You will be responsible for driving hardware solutions from the initial concept through volume production, with a specific focus on innovative display technologies and their interfaces. You will require expertise in hardware design, debugging, and validation, as well as close collaboration with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless system integration.Google Beam is a true-to-life new communication technology from Google that allows people to feel like they’re having real face-to-face conversations, no matter the distance. Powered by realistic state-of-the-art 3D imaging and spatial audio and integrated with today’s leading remote video platforms, Google Beam enables you to be immersed in the moment, together. As a part of the Google Beam team, you'll work with incredible teammates across all major functions in a fast-paced product-oriented environment. Your contributions will have an impact on the future of communications with Google products. You will apply technology to solve that really important problem that we often want to be together and we can’t.

Responsibilities

• Gather system requirements, define architecture, and execute hardware design for advanced electronic systems, with a focus on display-related components.
  
• Drive hardware system development from initial concept through high-volume production.
  
• Lead the design, bring-up, and validation of hardware solutions, assisting with deployment and sustaining activities. Lead debug and root cause analysis of complex hardware issues in deployed systems.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Hardware, Firmware, Software, Power, Mechanical, Thermal, Validation, Signal Integrity, Manufacturing, and external vendors to ensure system integration.
  
• Partner closely with firmware engineers to support the development and integration of firmware for embedded microcontrollers, FPGAs or ASICs, including those related to display control and interfaces.