Mechanical Failure Analysis Engineer
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Materials Science, Mechanical, Chemical, or Electrical Engineering, Mechatronics, or equivalent practical experience.
- 4 years of experience in failure analysis for consumer electronic products.
- Experience working with lab tools (microscope, balance) and utilizing lab tools to answer questions.
Preferred qualifications:
- Master's degree in Materials Science, Mechanical/Chemical/Electrical Engineering, or Mechatronics.
- Experience with inspection equipment (X-ray, CT), and scanning electron microscopy.
- Experience with programming in 1 or more of the following languages: MATLAB, Python, R, JavaScript, C/C++ and/or GenAI.
- Experience in experimental automation, instrument control, data analysis tools, numerical simulations, or statistical analyses.
- Ability to travel up to 10% of the time, including international travel.
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.
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
- Contribute to the investigation of hardware device failures, including but not limited to: materials, electrical, and component quality.
- Systematically apply scientific principles and analytical techniques to identify the fundamental cause(s) of hardware device failures.
- Utilize techniques such as microscopy, CT, and basic electrical probing to identify failure modes.
- Develop clear failure analysis documentation that can be read by both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Develop and optimize new analytical methods and laboratory procedures to address emerging challenges and improve failure analysis capabilities.
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