Google

Hardware Reliability Engineer

Google$159K — $230K *
Telecommunications & Hardware
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Hardware Engineering or similar experience.
  • 6 years in hardware reliability engineering and predictive analytics.
  • 5 years in reliability engineering specifically for cloud infrastructure hardware.
  • 3 years working with rigid PCB manufacturing processes.
  • Proficiency in statistical data analysis tools like MATLAB or Python.

Responsibilities

  • Lead system design evaluations and implement early reliability assessment plans.
  • Drive the development of reliability test plans and analyze test data for design verification.
  • Oversee system reliability monitoring and alert product teams on potential issues.
  • Conduct root-cause analysis using field reliability data and manage reliability testing.
  • Collaborate with external partners and develop in-house test capabilities as needed.

Benefits

  • Access to health, wellness, and retirement plans.
  • Generous paid time off and holiday schedule.
  • Professional development and training opportunities.
  • Flexible work arrangements and a dynamic work environment.
  • Access to innovative technology and cutting-edge tools.
Full Job Description
Minimum 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 one or more software/tools (e.g., MATLAB, Python, JMP, or Minitab).

Preferred qualifications:
  • Master's degree or PhD in Hardware Engineering.
  • Experience with system level reliability tools such as Reliability Block Diagrams (RBDs), Mean Cumulative Function (MCF), Homogeneous and Non-Homogeneous Poisson Processes (HPP, NHPP), and simulation tools.
  • Experience leading cross-functional, problem-solving teams using practical approaches.
  • Ability to effectively lead teams to meet corporate and customer reliability expectations.
  • Ability to effectively communicate to the project team with excellent people management skills.
  • Excellent leadership, de-escalation, and executive communication skills.


About the job
As a Reliability Engineer, you will play a key role in creating new consumer electronic products that meet a high bar for reliability and performance. You will work closely with the product management and design engineering teams to define standards, specify tests, and then supervise test execution and failure analysis. A broad engineering background and command of statistical methods will help to inform design of new products. Your strong interpersonal and communication skills will be key to ensuring adoption of your technical recommendations.
The AI and Infrastructure team is redefining what's possible. We empower Google customers with breakthrough capabilities and insights by delivering AI and Infrastructure at unparalleled scale, efficiency, reliability and velocity. Our customers include Googlers, Google Cloud customers, and billions of Google users worldwide.

We're the driving force behind Google's groundbreaking innovations, empowering the development of our cutting-edge AI models, delivering unparalleled computing power to global services, and providing the essential platforms that enable developers to build the future. From software to hardware our teams are shaping the future of world-leading hyperscale computing, with key teams working on the development of our TPUs, Vertex AI for Google Cloud, Google Global Networking, Data Center operations, systems research, and much more.
Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $159000 - $230000 (USD) 15% bonus target equity benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google .

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.


About Google

Google is a multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products. These include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware. Google was founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University. The company has grown tremendously since then and has become one of the most valuable companies in the world. Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.
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$1,115.4 billion
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Net Income
$40.2 billion
Founded
1998
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Revenue
$182.5 billion
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