Hardware Reliability Engineer: NPI & Failure Analysis Lead

Google; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 159,000 - 230,000; Full time

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Job summary

Google is seeking a Reliability Engineer to help create high-reliability consumer electronics and collaborate with product management and design engineering to set standards, specify tests, and supervise failure analysis.

You will leverage statistics to inform design choices and communicate recommendations effectively across teams, ensuring reliability goals are met for scalable systems.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Hardware Engineering or equivalent practical experience.
• 6 years of experience in hardware reliability engineering, physics of failure, and predictive analytics.
• 5 years of experience in reliability engineering of cloud infrastructure hardware and technology, failure analysis, and fault isolation techniques.
• 3 years of experience in rigid PCB manufacturing processes.
• Experience in statistics and data analysis using MATLAB, Python, JMP, or Minitab.

Responsibilities

• Lead system design evaluations and implement reliability plans to assess and mitigate failure risks early in New Product Introduction (NPI).
• Drive reliability test plans and collect, analyze, and synthesize test data to enable verification of design reliability goals.
• Lead system reliability monitoring efforts (availability, repair trends) and proactively alert product teams on unwanted system behavior, working on mitigation strategy definition and implementation.
• Extract field reliability data to drive root-cause failure analysis while managing global Contract Manufacturer (CM) reliability and ORT execution.
• Manage efforts with outside partners, testing labs, failure analysis labs, and cross-functional internal groups, while developing in-house test and qualification capabilities where needed.

Skills

Hardware reliability

Physics of failure

Predictive analytics

Reliability engineering

Cross-functional leadership

People management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Hardware Engineering

Master's degree or PhD in Hardware Engineering

Tools

MATLAB

Python

JMP

Minitab

Job description

Google is seeking a Reliability Engineer to help create high-reliability consumer electronics and collaborate with product management and design engineering to set standards, specify tests, and supervise failure analysis.

You will leverage statistics to inform design choices and communicate recommendations effectively across teams, ensuring reliability goals are met for scalable systems.