Supplier Quality and Component Engineering Manager, Google Cloud
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Quality, Electrical, or Mechanical Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
- 10 years of experience in Quality, Reliability or Product Engineering.
- 8 years of experience in a technical leadership or management role, leading engineering teams.
- Experience working within industries such as servers, automotive, or aerospace.
Preferred qualifications:
- Master's degree in Quality, Electrical, or Mechanical Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
- Ability to navigate ambiguity and with attention to detail.
- Excellent leadership, communication, organization and prioritization skills.
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 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.Through your leadership, you leverage your technical expertise to design and analyze products and related data, develop and improve manufacturing and supportive processes, and provide consultation to vendors, manufacturers, and internal teams. You lead complex projects to completion by managing resources and activities along the way.
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
- Lead, mentor, and grow a team of Supplier Quality Engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, innovation, and continuous improvement.
- Collaborate closely with hardware design, manufacturing, supply chain, and operations teams to develop and deploy Supplier Quality Engineering best practices throughout the product life cycle, from concept to deployment and end-of-life.
- Influence product road maps and architectural decisions by providing data-driven insights on hardware quality, reliability, and performance trade-offs.
- Represent the team and its capabilities in executive reviews, cross-functional leadership forums, and direct supplier leadership engagements.
- Cultivate and maintain partnerships with key suppliers ensuring Google is protected from a Quality and Reliability perspective.
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