Hardware Reliability Engineer, Pixel

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 design of new products. Your strong interpersonal and communication skills will be key to ensuring adoption of your technical recommendations.

Aligned with Google’s mission to organize the world's information, the Devices and Services team combines the best of Google AI, software, and hardware to create radically helpful experiences. Within this mission, the Pixel Phone System Reliability team delivers exceptional hardware durability and quality across the Pixel product lifecycle.

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

• Translate product management reliability goals into appropriate testable goals.
• Perform statistical data analysis, Accelerated Life Testing (ALT) and modeling, and risk assessment.
• Maintain key relationships with Contract Manufacturer (CM) partners, testing labs and internal groups.
• Drive the failure analysis process for all failures discovered during reliability testing, leading it with internal and external cross-functional teams.
• Develop test plans, execute them, plan and manage resources (internal and external resources and equipment), and develop and present reports. Manage product reliability from prototype stage all the way through to end of life.

Qualifications

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Hardware Engineering or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience developing consumer hardware products.
• 2 years of experience testing hardware products.

Preferred qualifications:

• 2 years of experience in applying Design for Reliability techniques.
• Knowledge of Industry Test Standards (JEDEC, ASTM, IEEE).
• Great analytical and organizational skills, coupled with a well-focused attention to details, and the ability and commitment to produce a timely and highly accurate work product.
• Effective communication skills, and can do attitude.
• Detail-oriented engineer with exceptional problem-solving abilities.