Reliability Data & Failure Analysis Engineer

Google; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 132,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Google is seeking a Hardware Data and Failure Analysis Engineer in Mountain View, CA to drive reliability for consumer electronics. You will work with product management and design teams to define tests and oversee failure analysis, using statistics and data analytics to inform robust designs.

You will bridge labs and field data, applying ME/EE/Materials knowledge with data pipelines to uncover root causes and recommend corrective actions for future products.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Hardware Engineering or equivalent practical experience.
• 4 years of experience analyzing hardware performance, manufacturing, or lab test data.
• Experience investigating technical anomalies or field failures, finding root causes, and documenting corrective actions.
• Experience designing, debugging, or performing failure analysis on hardware.
• Experience applying statistical methods, data modeling (e.g., regression), or machine learning to solve physical engineering problems.
• Experience in technical communication, including simplifying data into concise messages.

Responsibilities

• Navigate and synthesize product datasets (telemetry, reliability results, failure analysis, field returns, customer sentiment) to identify and motivate areas for product improvement.
• Identify true root causes by leveraging all available data sources, including direct FA, and referring to cross-product and generation-over-generation information. Distill findings into a clear problem statement.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop mitigation strategies, and identify pathways to validate these strategies.
• Recommend and drive corrective action to improve future products.
• Develop software, AI skills, and processes to automate and accelerate future workstreams.

Skills

Data analysis

Failure analysis

Statistics

Machine learning

Technical communication

Regression modeling

Education

Bachelor's degree in Hardware Engineering

Master's or PhD in EE/CE/Physics

Tools

Python

SQL

JMP

Weibull++

Job description

Google is seeking a Hardware Data and Failure Analysis Engineer in Mountain View, CA to drive reliability for consumer electronics. You will work with product management and design teams to define tests and oversee failure analysis, using statistics and data analytics to inform robust designs.

You will bridge labs and field data, applying ME/EE/Materials knowledge with data pipelines to uncover root causes and recommend corrective actions for future products.