Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Process, or Manufacturing Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
- 10 years of experience in component engineering or supplier quality engineering.
- 8 years of experience in people management.
- Ability to travel as required.
- Master's degree in Engineering (e.g., Quality, Electrical, Mechanical, Optical), or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience working in a company specializing in server or compute segments, or related equipment.
- Understanding of electronic component materials, and manufacturing processes (e.g., supply chain, suppliers, sub-tiers).
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About the job
Google's custom-designed machines make up one of the largest and most powerful computing infrastructures in the world. The Hardware Testing Engineering team ensures that this cutting-edge equipment is reliable. In the R&D lab, you design test equipment for prototypes of our machinery and develop the protocols used to scale these tests for the entire global team. Working closely with design engineers, you give input on designs to improve our hardware until you're sure it meets Google's standards of quality and reliability.
As a Supplier Quality and Component Engineering Manager, you will be in charge of building and leading a team of professionals responsible for component engineering and supplier quality.
In this role, you will lead and set component engineering and supplier quality processes while collaborating with cross-functional teams managing technical infrastructure and cloud platforms. You will be working on platforms in the New Product Introduction (NPI) phase as well as maintaining it throughout its lifecycle. You will have extensive involvement in the tools and techniques used to manage component engineering and supplier quality related processes. You will analyze data and use it to drive design or manufacturing process improvements, or collaborate on commodity management related decisions.
Behind everything our users see online is the architecture built by the Technical Infrastructure team to keep it running. From developing and maintaining our data centers to building the next generation of Google platforms, we make Google's product portfolio possible. We're proud to be our engineers' engineers and love voiding warranties by taking things apart so we can rebuild them. We keep our networks up and running, ensuring our users have the best and fastest experience possible.
Responsibilities
- Manage a Supplier Quality and Component Engineering team, grow the team, and collaborate with the Engineering, Manufacturing, and Commodity teams, and suppliers in qualification and application of components.
- Perform Bill of Material (BOM), risk analysis, second sourcing, and technical review of components to ensure adherence to industry requirements and Google quality standards.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to provide specification reviews, product qualifications, second source qualifications, and supplier management, development.
- Lead management of Product Change Notifications (PCNs), and drive appropriate evaluation and qualification with the appropriate cross-functional teams.
- Interface with component suppliers on various requests for data sheets, application notes, Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS), PCN, and qualification reports.