Supplier Quality Engineer

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering, a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in manufacturing.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's degree in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering, or thermal related equivalent practical experience.
• Certification in the American Society for Quality (CQE, CQM, CRE, or CQA).
• 10 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 work in a team, be self-supported, result and detail oriented.
• 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 Supplier Quality Engineer working on Thermal solutions, you lead suppliers from quality and reliability perspectives while collaborating with Hardware Designers, Commodity Managers, Manufacturing Engineers, and Data Center teams. You set and manage component quality and reliability, drive supplier factory certification audits, and lead component and manufacturing site qualifications. You actively manage sustaining quality, drive continuous improvements, and ensure lessons learned are mitigated with suppliers and partner teams. You drive true root cause failure analysis and ensure systemic corrective actions with comprehensive preventative actions. Additionally, you extract and analyze data from supplier facilities, Google production lines, and our data centers to verify performance and drive improvements.

Google is an engineering company at heart. We hire people with a broad set of technical skills who are ready to take on some of technology's greatest challenges and make an impact on users around the world. At Google, engineers not only revolutionize search, they routinely work on scalability and storage solutions, large-scale applications and entirely new platforms for developers around the world. From Google Ads to Chrome, Android to YouTube, social to local, Google engineers are changing the world one technological achievement after another.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate closely with hardware design, manufacturing, supply chain, and operations teams to develop and deploy Supplier Quality Engineering best practices throughout the product lifecycle, from concept to deployment and end-of-life.
• Influence product roadmaps and architectural decisions by providing data-driven insights on hardware quality, reliability.
• Represent Supplier Quality Engineering in executive reviews, cross-functional forums, and direct supplier leadership engagements.
• Cultivate and maintain strategic partnerships with key suppliers ensuring Google is protected from a Quality and Reliability perspective.
• Establish quality programs and process controls in suppliers for early issue detection and prevent quality/reliability escapes from reaching Google.