Hardware Reliability Manager
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Hardware Engineering or equivalent practical experience.
- 12 years of experience in multiple hardware technology domains (e.g., camera display, batteries, etc.), applying Design for Reliability techniques, and working on multiple consumer electronics products.
- 10 years of experience managing a team across multiple technical disciplines.
- 6 years of experience in an Engineering leadership role.
- Experience with statistical analysis (e.g., Monte Carlo Analysis, DoE, SPC).
Preferred qualifications:
- Master’s degree or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or Materials Science.
- Experience collaborating with suppliers around the world on part manufacturing and final assembly, including onsite factory support.
- Experience in applying design for reliability techniques (e.g., FTA, DFMEA) and reliability modeling techniques (e.g., Reliability Block Diagram, Weibull, Reliability Growth Models), as well as with failure analysis techniques for electrical, mechanical, or optical components.
- Experience shipping consumer products as a reliability lead role.
- Excellent leadership skills, with the ability to summarize and communicate issues to executives.
- Excellent communication, project management, planning and organizational skills.
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
- Provide technical leadership to the hardware reliability engineering team and lead the team through the product life-cycle.
- Collaborate with design, tech engineering, and operation teams to execute reliability testing across NTI, NPI, and sustaining, and work with cross-functional teams to translate reliability goals into appropriate testable matrices.
- Lead on statistical data analysis, ALT testing and modeling, and risk assessment.
- Develop reliability performance metrics and lead management reviews to review progress against those metrics, lead reliability test planning, methodology, and execution for all aspects of the product.
- Set expectations with individuals based on their level and role, meet regularly to discuss performance and development, and provide feedback and coaching.
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