Supplier Quality Engineer, Thermals
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 years of experience in the Thermal technology and manufacturing process.
- Experience in statistical product quality control, process capability, reliability, failure analysis, and process improvement.
Preferred qualifications:
- Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or in a Thermal related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Certifications in American Society for Quality (CQE, CQM, CRE, or CQA).
- 10 years of experience in Quality/Reliability and thermal technology.
- Experience setting up manufacturing assembly processes, driving product launches and assembly process optimization within manufacturing operations.
- Understanding of thermal management from infrastructure to chip including next generation cooling technologies, interface materials, components and solutions.
About the job
Google's custom-designed machines make up one of the largest and most powerful computing infrastructures in the world. The Hardware Testing Engineering team ensures that this cutting-edge equipment is reliable. In the R&D lab, you design test equipment for prototypes of our machinery and develop the protocols used to scale these tests for the entire global team. Working closely with design engineers, you give input on designs to improve our hardware until you're sure it meets Google's standards of quality and reliability.
The Global Hardware Quality and Reliability is responsible for high quality components and solutions to fuel Google's state-of-the-art physical infrastructure.
As a Thermal Supplier Quality Engineer, you will join the team responsible for setting and managing the supplier quality and reliability standards for Thermal Infrastructure across Google's supply base. You are a Quality and Reliability expert with a track record of improving the quality of thermal deliverables during New Product Introduction (NPI) as well as maintaining it throughout the life cycle. You are hands-on and have extensive involvement in the tools, processes and technologies used to assess Thermals product quality and reliability. You love to shift through data and use it to drive manufacturing process improvements.
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
- Responsible for the supplier quality and reliability of thermal deliverables throughout the life cycle. Drive cross-functional activities in the supply chain for overall NPI phases and Mass Production.
- Provide consultation to the design, manufacturing and commodity teams in qualification, and application of thermal technologies.
- Assess suppliers’ capabilities from a quality perspective as part of new supplier selection activities.
- Define and ensure processes in place to provide the data required to manage quality and reliability. Share ppm feedback from the fleet and drive Return Material Authorization (RMA), Corrective Action Requests (CAR), Root Cause and Corrective Action (RCCA) and Failure Analysis (FA).
- Establish quality programs and process controls for early detection of issues and to ensure highest level of quality and reliability is consistently delivered, e.g. gauge RandR, Cpk's, 8D's. Utilize DOE’s, FMEA.
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