Product Design Engineer, Pixel Hardware

Google Google · Big Tech · Mountain View, CA +1

Product Design Engineer for Google Pixel hardware, focusing on mechanical design, analysis, and prototyping of new concepts for smartphones. The role involves collaborating with suppliers and vendors throughout the design and manufacturing process, ensuring functionality, sustainability, reliability, and aesthetics. The team integrates Google's AI, software, and hardware to create user experiences.

What you'd actually do

  1. Design a subsystem or multiple individual parts from concept to production.
  2. Collaborate with suppliers of subsystems or individual parts throughout the design and manufacturing process.
  3. Identify the root cause of design, manufacturing, or reliability issues and develop corrective actions.
  4. Balance design considerations such as functionality, sustainability, reliability, human factors, manufacturability, and aesthetics.

Skills

Required

  • mechanical engineering
  • product design
  • mechanical components design
  • CAD tools

Nice to have

  • consumer product design
  • shipping consumer products
  • supplier collaboration
  • system integration
  • electro-mechanical components
  • thermals
  • grounding
  • product architecture
  • NX
  • Teamcenter
  • manufacturing methods

What the JD emphasized

  • 3 years of experience designing mechanical components
  • 3 years of experience using computer-aided design (CAD) tools
  • Experience shipping multiple consumer products in a lead or senior engineer role