Senior Product Design Engineer, Trackers
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Product Design, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 5 years of experience designing mechanical components such as plastic or metal parts, mechanical assemblies, printed circuit boards, or flexes.
- 5 years of experience using computer-aided design (CAD) tools such as 3D MCAD, NX, Creo, or Solidworks.
Preferred qualifications:
- Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Product Design, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 10 years of experience in consumer product design.
- Experience shipping multiple consumer products in a lead role.
- Experience collaborating with suppliers around the world on part manufacturing and final assembly, including onsite factory support.
- Experience with System integration, including electro-mechanical components (e.g., audio, display, camera, antenna, etc.), waterproofing, thermals, grounding, or product architecture.
- Knowledge of multiple manufacturing methods (e.g., injection molding, stamping die-casting, compression molding, etc..) used in consumer products.
About the job
As a member of a fast-paced multi-disciplinary team, you use your creativity and range of engineering experience to explore solutions to a variety of engineering problems. As a mechanical engineer, you participate in the design, analysis, and prototyping of new concepts. You work in a manufacturing and product oriented development environment and collaborate with vendors and outside sources in order to see parts through to manufacture.
As a Senior Product Design Engineer, you will lead the design of the next generation of health trackers and smart home consumer products. You will drive the design, analysis, and prototyping of new concepts while working in a manufacturing and product-oriented development environment. You will demonstrate problem-solving and design skills, communication, and understanding of engineering fundamentals. You will have organizational skills to help and manage our varied responsibilities across the product. You will work on a Product Design team that balances comfort, performance, and appearance in the design that complements and enables the technology. You will collaborate with contract manufacturers, external vendors and internal cross-functional teams such as Electrical Engineering, Antenna, Industrial Design, Reliability, Operations, Camera, and Product to define and deliver products. You also engage in community contributions to improve and sustain our culture and operations - making Google a better place to work.
The Google Home team focuses on hardware, software and services offerings for the home, ranging from thermostats to smart displays. The Home team researches, designs, and develops new technologies and hardware to make users’ homes more helpful. Our mission is the helpful home: to create a home that cares for the people inside it and the world around it.Responsibilities
- Apply design, engineering, and technical expertise to influence cross-functionally and deliver reliable mass production components, and solve problems.
- Anticipate and address product design issues or risks, analyze data, and validate product design to suggest or implement design improvements.
- Manage the product design, provide guidance to team members, and communicate progress, and request feedback to prevent/remove roadblocks.
- Work with suppliers and manufacturing to ensure quality of the products and be responsible for understanding and resolving all reliability concerns for designs.
- Travel as required for program development.
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