As a Senior Mechanical Test Engineer, you will bring mechanical, structural, and testing expertise to Google's design and test team. You will provide support to the Google Cloud Platforms organization, assisting engineers on product development of prototype systems under development. You will utilize equipment such as shaker tables, highly accelerated life testing (HALT), drop towers, robotic automation, metrology inspection, Digital Image Correlation (DIC) and high speed cameras, Laser Doppler Vibrometry (LDV), strain gauges, accelerometers, modal hammer with force transducer and more.
You will be responsible for test plan development, fixture design, test setup, execution, troubleshooting and failure analysis, corrective actions and design updates, and documentation and debriefing to cross-functional stakeholders. You will also be coordinating day-to-day allocation of resources, ensuring that test equipment is calibrated, and that the lab is a safe environment to work in.
Most importantly, you will be a leader within the organization, driving new process improvements and developing new test methodologies and making them deployable both internally and to external partners globally.
Our Platforms Infrastructure Engineering team designs and builds the hardware and software technologies that power all of Google's services. Our computational challenges are complex and unique, enabled by cutting-edge custom hardware designed and made in-house. Our Mechanical Product Design Engineering Team members work cross-functionally to design, build, and deploy the latest technology to support the needs of compute, storage, networking, and machine learning hardware.
Responsibilities
- Own Mechanical Hard Disk Drive (HDD) qualification testing and serve as Vibration Subject Matter Expert (SME) to lead root-cause-analysis for HDD qualification issues, utilizing historical data and operational assessments to resolve performance degradation.
- Drive mechanical characterization by Modal Testing and Laser Doppler Vibrometry (LDV) to identify structural resonances and failure modes.
- Design, produce, and assemble mechanical parts and assemblies for products and test fixtures; setup and conduct tests of testing units and investigate proposals for improving structures/assembly.
- Deliver comprehensive test planning and execution for HDD qualification and mechanical stress testing (e.g., transportation, operational vibration) through the entire product development life-cycle.
- Establish ownership of Shock and Vibration (S&V) testing for Product Introduction Engineering (PIE) Taiwan (TWN) programs, driving the validation of structural integrity and performance across rack, tray, and component levels.
Qualifications
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Product Design, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 5 years of experience in design, analysis/development of mechanical solutions (e.g., servers, storage. switches, etc.).
- 5 years of experience in the mechanical field.
Preferred qualifications:
- Master's degree or PhD in Mechanical Engineering or a related field.
- 8 years of experience in mechanical testing at the rack, chassis, and component levels for server products, including shock and vibration, rotational vibration, and mechanical HDD qualification.
- Experience with test plan development, with the ability to lead root cause analysis and propose design fixes.
- Experience with modal testing/FEA modal simulation, or the mechanical design/simulation of server products.
- Experience with test fixture design, test scripts, calibration, and troubleshooting, as well as failure analysis and corrective actions.