Product Quality Engineer, Phones

About the job

Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. Our Devices & Services team combines the best of Google AI, Software, and Hardware to create radically helpful experiences for users. We research, design, and develop new technologies and hardware to make our user's interaction with computing faster, seamless, and more powerful. Whether finding new ways to capture and sense the world around us, advancing form factors, or improving interaction methods, the Devices & Services team is making people's lives better through technology.

Responsibilities

• Manage/address factory quality issue escalation, issues failure analysis (FA), root cause and corrective action (RCCA) from FAI (First Article Inspection)/OQC (outgoing quality control)/ORT (on-going reliability), yield fallouts, customer complaints and field failures, during NPI/MP (mass production) phases.
• Coordinate with on-site operation team members and suppliers to resolve emergency issues locally in a timely manner.
• Define/implement phone product cosmetic specifications and design FATP quality cosmetic station inspection plan ensuring the specifications meet, and participate in design for quality (DFQ) review with design/manufacturing partners, including mechanical/module supplier development engineering (SDE).
• Identify production line factors critical to quality and establish production quality control procedures.
• Drive DOE (design of experiment), collect SPC (statistical process control) data to enable evaluation/qualification/verification of cost effectiveness meeting overall manufacturing quality goals with cross-functional team.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Product Engineering, or Business Administration, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in product quality development or manufacturing engineering for mobile or consumer electronics products.
• 5 years of experience as a product quality engineer, or a similar role.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree in Engineering or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 5 years of experience overseeing yield improvements and cycle time reductions for high volume and high complexity parts.
  
• Experience in consumer hardware development and manufacturing processes, vendor relations and working with Contract Manufacturers (CMs).
• Knowledge of statistical quality control such as six sigma, familia with statistical analysis tools such as JMP, Minitab, R language.
• Ability to read and draw mechanical and PCBA schematics.

• Bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Product Engineering, or Business Administration, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in product quality development or manufacturing engineering for mobile or consumer electronics products.
• 5 years of experience as a product quality engineer, or a similar role.