# Staff Hardware Engineer (Fixed-Term Contract)

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 Mechatronics Engineer on a 1-year fixed-term contract, you will focus on modifying platforms, rapid prototyping, and experimenting with new designs to inform our robotics efforts. You will be working in a cross-functional team of designers, AI researchers, HRI scientistics to develop experiential proof points. In this role, you will leverage expertise in 3D design, rapid prototyping tools, actuators, mechanisms, motor controllers, and simulation to rapidly prototype, assemble, and bring up next-generation characterful robots. Android is Google’s mobile operating system powering more than 3 billion devices worldwide. Android is about bringing computing to everyone in the world. We believe computing is a super power for good, enabling access to information, economic opportunity, productivity, connectivity between

- **Id**: 3866388
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/google-staff-hardware-engineer-fixed-term-contract>
- **Role**: Hardware
- **Role family**: Hardware
- **Seniority**: staff
- **Employment type**: contractor
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Francisco, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 6
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-06T11:43:23Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-06
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-07T22:49:20Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 1
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3564
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Advertising, Cloud Platforms (IaaS & PaaS), Operating Systems, Video & Photo Sharing

## Company

- **Id**: 82
- **Name**: Google
- **Domain**: google.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/google>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Career site

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 78
- **Open postings**: 134
- **Ghost share**: 0.045
- **Stale share**: 0.739
- **Repost share**: 0.045
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 30
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 1

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 6
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: yes

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-06T12:20:23Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 8,371 · green card filings: 3; Filings 12m: 8371

## Liveness

- **Score**: 63
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.632
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 30
- **Reasons**: conf:3, stale_co, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

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