Job Description

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Manufacturing, Mechanical, or Electrical Engineering, a similar field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of device manufacturing or process engineering experience working with contract manufacturing partners (CM/JDM) in a manufacturing environment.
• Experience in final assembly manufacturing processes.
• Able to travel internationally up to 25% of the time as required
  
  

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience assessing manufacturing processes through the use of Process Failure Mode Effects Analysis (PFMEA), process monitors, capability analysis, root cause analysis, and design of experiments.
• Consumer device manufacturing experience including AR/VR products, smartphones, and smart-wearables.
• Experience working with mechanical design tools (NX or Solidworks).
  
  

About The Job

As a Manufacturing Engineer within the Augmented Reality team, you will develop manufacturing solutions and processes to enable next generation AR products. You will be a Design for Excellence (DfX) expert and influence product designs towards manufacturable outcomes, as well as develop manufacturing solutions that seek to maximize quality and minimize cost. You will be the bridge from product engineering to high volume high quality production at our manufacturing partner(s).

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

• Implement outstanding manufacturing processes through continuous improvement of assembly tooling, automated equipment, and contract manufacturing partners.
• Develop manufacturing and NPI (New Product Introduction) processes via cross-functional collaboration with Product Design, Quality, and Operations teams to ensure excellent manufacturability and product quality.
• Collaborate with Engineering teams on system level design, and influence DfX activities to ensure prospective product and process shortcomings are identified and mitigated.
• Be responsible for line technical readiness and assembly process qualification, and work with contract manufacturing partners on assembly related SOPs, line readiness, cycle time, process optimization, and line balancing.
• Assess manufacturing processes through the use of statistical methods and Six Sigma techniques, and define data collection requirements, identify root causes of yield loss, manufacturing process non-conformities, and implement necessary corrective actions.
  
  

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