About the job

Google has one of the largest and most powerful computing infrastructures in the world. Your team is responsible for providing the manufacturing capability to deliver this state-of-the-art physical infrastructure. As a Manufacturing Engineer, you evaluate the product designs and create the processes, tools and procedures behind Google's powerful search technology. When vendors build parts for our infrastructure, you're right there alongside ensuring manufacturing processes are repeatable and controlled. You collaborate with Commodity Managers and Design Engineers to determine Google's infrastructure needs and product specifications. Your work ensures the various pieces of Google's infrastructure fit together perfectly and keep our systems humming along smoothly for a seamless user experience.

As a Central Test Manufacturing Engineer, you will join our Product Operations and Test team working on new product factory test development and bring-up, including development, operation and troubleshooting of factory test systems, test flow planning, and build-out. In this role, you will rely on knowledge of electro-mechanical fixtures and fabrication methods and experience with electronic test equipment such as digital scopes, data acquisition systems, and their procurement. Additionally, you will coordinate the implementation of test hardware and operating procedures, analyze, results, and recommend changes regarding system design and performance.

Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. Our Hardware team researches, designs, and develops new technologies and hardware to make our user's interaction with computing faster, more powerful, and seamless. Whether finding new ways to capture and sense the world around us, advancing form factors, or improving interaction methods, our Hardware team is making people's lives better through technology.

Responsibilities

• Work with test engineers in test system development and product testing for Google Hardware consumer electronics products.
• Perform design for manufacturability/assembly/test (DFx) analyses and design for cost (DFC) analyses for factory test platforms, effectively communicating required design and material changes to contract manufacturers and engineering peers.
• Perform measurements using standard test equipment and tooling/fixtures for FATP functional tests, RF connectivity, audio, camera, and optical system testing.
• Execute test scripts to control custom hardware, perform data acquisition, and work with Engineering to analyze measurement results.
• Perform system bring-up, design validation, DOE, debug/troubleshooting, and failure analysis investigation work.