Materials Engineer, Glass
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Product Design, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 1 year of experience with glass/ceramics in engineering design and mass-manufacturing (consumer products, automotive or other).
Preferred qualifications:
- Master's degree or PhD in Materials Science, Ceramic Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Physics, Chemistry, or similar field.
- Expertise in understanding on Brittle material Failure modes and root cause analysis.
- Proficiency in glass characterization techniques (e.g., thermal analysis, microscopy, mechanical testing).
- Proficiency of glass formulation principles and manufacturing processes.
- Ability to travel internationally up to 20% of the time.
About the job
As a member of a fast-paced multi-disciplinary team, you use your creativity and diverse range of engineering experience to explore solutions to a variety of engineering problems. As a mechanical engineer, you participate in the design, analysis, and prototyping of new concepts. You work in a manufacturing and product oriented development environment and collaborate with vendors and outside sources in order to see parts through to manufacture.
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
- Create and develop glass roadmap that enables future design and product development, in close cooperation with product designers, industrial designers and manufacturing partners.
- Engage with global glass suppliers on multiple projects at once, ensure material DOEs are carried out, analyze test results, and help select the best material for an application.
- Work closely with Corporate Sustainability, Product Design, Industrial Design, Operations and Reliability teams on material qualification and pass all product level testing.
- Partner with FEA/REL teams on material properties for modeling, understanding of failure mechanisms, develop engineering solutions that mitigate risks, prevent catastrophic failures, and enhance the performance of systems that rely on these materials.
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