Senior Hardware Reliability Engineer — NPI & Data-Driven

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

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Job summary

Google Austin is seeking a Reliability Engineer with strong hardware reliability and analytics experience to define standards, specify tests, and supervise failure analysis for New Product Introductions. You will collaborate with product management and design teams to ensure reliability goals are met across hardware platforms.

You will lead data-driven test plans, monitor system reliability, and drive root-cause analysis with global partners.

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 Ongoing Reliability Test (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.

Education

Bachelor's degree in Hardware Engineering

Master's degree or PhD in Hardware Engineering

Tools

MATLAB

Python

JMP

Minitab

Job description

Google Austin is seeking a Reliability Engineer with strong hardware reliability and analytics experience to define standards, specify tests, and supervise failure analysis for New Product Introductions. You will collaborate with product management and design teams to ensure reliability goals are met across hardware platforms.

You will lead data-driven test plans, monitor system reliability, and drive root-cause analysis with global partners.