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Google Looking for Staff Product Design Engineer, Tablets at Mountain View, CA, USA Full Time
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Product Design, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 years of experience designing mechanical components such as plastic or metal parts, mechanical assemblies, printed circuit boards, or flexes.
- 8 years of experience using computer-aided design tools such as 3D MCAD, NX, Creo, or Solidworks.
Preferred qualifications:
- Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Product Design, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 12 years of experience with consumer product development, collaborating cross-functionally with industrial design, electrical engineering, and manufacturing operations teams.
- Experience with machine shop tools, ability to in design with plastics and metals, and knowledge of structural finite element analysis (FEA).
- Familiar with a range of manufacturing techniques, Design for Manufacturing review and electromechanical assemblies (e.g., LCD/OLED displays, batteries, sensors, FPC’s, PCB’s, antennas, buttons, etc.).
- Proficiency with Unigraphics NX or Teamcenter with proficiency in 3D CAD modeling and 2D drawing creation.
About the job
As a Product Design Engineer, you will help design our new generation of tablets: balancing comfort, performance, and aesthetics. You will work on a team that delivers innovative and harmonious designs that complement and enables Google’s technology. You are comfortable managing design uncertainty, actively communicating among a team to establish a design direction, creating prototypes that prove it, and working to scale that prototype.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.
The US base salary range for this full-time position is $164,000-$252,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.
Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.
Responsibilities
- Manage the subsystem or individual consumer electronics part designs from concept to production.
- Work with global manufacturing suppliers and partners of subsystems, and drive individual part design from concept to production. Ability to travel to meet with suppliers and support system manufacturing during product development stages.
- Create and publish detailed 3D CAD and 2D drawings for your design models, search out and select materials, components, and sub-systems for the products you launch.
- Build and troubleshoot prototypes, analyze the results of the reliability testing, iterate to improve the product design, and bring to production.
- Design for function, reliability, human factors, manufacturability, and cosmetic requirements.
