Supplier Quality Engineer, Thermals

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or a Thermal related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 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 a Thermal related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Quality certification (CQE, CQM, CRE, or CQA).
• 7 years of experience in Quality/Reliability and thermal technology.
• Understanding of thermal management from infrastructure to chip including next generation cooling technologies, materials, components and solutions.
• Ability to travel as needed.

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.

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 and will improve the quality of thermal deliverables during New Product Introduction (NPI) as well as maintaining it throughout the life cycle. You work with the tools, processes, and technologies to assess thermal product quality. You use data insights to inform and improve manufacturing processes.

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

• Oversee 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 Parts Per Million (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 the quality is delivered, e.g. gauge RandR, Cpk's, 8D's. Utilize DOE’s, FMEA.