Product Quality Engineer, Pixel Phone

The Platforms and Devices team encompasses Google's various computing software platforms across environments (desktop, mobile, applications), as well as our first party devices and services that combine the best of Google AI, software, and hardware. Teams across this area research, design, and develop new technologies to make our user's interaction with computing faster and more seamless, building innovative experiences for our users around the world.

• Apply Root Cause Corrective Action (RCCA) fundamentals and collaborate with teams to help them understand and apply RCCA tools and principles and analyze failure to resolve issues.
• Define and execute data collection activities for technical issues.
• Drive process design, optimization, and qualification activities of a manufacturing process for a component, part or product.
• Drive design of experiments and collect statistical process control data to enable evaluation, qualification and verification, and manufacturing quality across manufactures and product lines.
• Manage and address factory quality issue escalation, Failure Analysis (FA), Root Cause and Corrective Action (RCCA) from First Article Inspection (FAI), Outgoing Quality Control (OQC), and On-Going Reliability (ORT), yield fallouts, customer complaints, and field failures, during New Product Introduction (NPI) phases.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Industrial/Manufacturing Engineering or Mechanical Engineering or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in product quality development or manufacturing engineering, working with mobile or consumer electronics products.
• 2 years of experience as a product quality engineer or in a similar role.
• Experience in consumer electronics and phone development, and shipping products.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree in Applied Chemistry Engineering or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in overseeing yield improvements and cycle time reductions for high-volume parts.
• Experience in preventing quality loss in the early stage of manufacturing, implementing quality escalation processes, and on-going product improvement with partners.