Product Engineer, Global Manufacturing Engineering
Note: Google's hybrid workplace includes remote roles.
Remote location: Czechia.
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Electronics Engineering or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 years of experience in manufacturing or product development.
Preferred qualifications:
- Master's degree or PhD in Electrical, Mechanical, Industrial, Materials, or a related engineering field.
- Experience setting up manufacturing assembly processes, managing product launches and assembly process optimization within manufacturing operations.
- Experience in technical leadership, project management, and executive communication.
- Experience as a technical lead for a Data Center electrical hardware engineering project.
- Experience in managing Bill of Materials (BOM), Product data management tools like Agile, product-specific test plans and evaluating test coverage.
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 Product Engineer within Global Manufacturing Engineering, you will provide sustaining support for mass production products at the Contract Manufacturer or Joint Development Manufacturer, including driving production factory readiness for product changes, supporting component qualification, providing training, and making sure that the desired product performance and requirements are met and maintained through resolving systemic product manufacturing issues and driving continuous improvement in product health. In this role, you will engage in New Product Introduction by consolidating Global Manufacturing Engineering input on Design for Manufacturability or Design for Testing, Failure Modes and Effects Analysis items, and yield issues to be provided to the New Product Introduction team for resolution in order to meet the Product Life Cycle phase exit criteria.
Behind everything our users see online is the architecture built by the Technical Infrastructure team to keep it running. From developing and maintaining our data centers to building the next generation of Google platforms, we make Google's product portfolio possible. We're proud to be our engineers' engineers and love voiding warranties by taking things apart so we can rebuild them. We keep our networks up and running, ensuring our users have the best and fastest experience possible.Responsibilities
- Build and deploy platforms for Google data center hardware (server, storage, switch, rack, or accelerator) at the global manufacturing partners.
- Analyze, troubleshoot, and root cause manufacturing yield issues and data center field escapes.
- Drive issues to closure with corrective and preventive measures. Collaborate with internal engineers and manufacturing partner engineers to drive improvement for product manufacturing efficiency and effectiveness, including test coverage, and reduce cost.
- Work on the customer site at least 3-4 days per week (one hour east of Prague).
- Lead New Product Introduction (NPI) early engagement to drive deliverables from NPI (Bill of Materials readiness and multi-sourcing, First Pass Yield, Manufacturing Capabilities, Failure Mode and Effects Analysis, Gauge Repeatability and Reproducibility, Design for X, Standard Operating Procedure, Field Replaceable Unit, failure diagnostics, etcetera) to meet mass production requirements before taking up sustaining ownership.