Product Design Engineer, Nest

Job Description

Qualifications

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Product Design, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 1 year of experience with consumer product design.
• Experience with Computer Aided Design (CAD) tools (such as PTC Creo, ProE, or NX) and mechanical simulation tools.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering.
• 3 years of experience with consumer product design.
• Experience with NX or Teamcenter.
• Ability to collaborate cross-functionally, communicate effectively, problem solve, think analytically, and make data-driven decisions.
• Knowledge of manufacturing techniques (DFM), finite element analysis, fabrication techniques, and electromechanical assemblies (e.g., LCD/OLED displays, batteries, sensors, FPC’s, PCB’s, antennas, buttons, etc.).
• Familiarity with mechanical design of plastic and metal components, printed circuit boards (PCB), flexible printed circuits (FPC), and acoustics used in consumer electronic products.

About the job

As a member of a fast-paced multi-disciplinary team, you use your creativity and diverse range of engineering experience to explore solutions to a variety of engineering problems. As a mechanical engineer, you participate in the design, analysis, and prototyping of new concepts. You work in a manufacturing and product oriented development environment and collaborate with vendors and outside sources in order to see parts through to manufacture.

As a Product Design Engineer, you will help to improve electronics by balancing comfort, performance, and appearance. You will work on a team that balances these in an innovative and harmonious design that complements and enables the technology. You will work on the borders of risk, actively communicate among a team, establish a design direction, create prototypes, and work to scale them.

Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. Only one thing consistently stands in the way between our users and the world's information—hardware. Our Consumer Hardware team researches, designs, and develops new technologies and hardware to make our user's interaction with computing faster, more powerful, and seamless. Whether finding new ways to capture and sense the world around us, advancing form factors, or improving interaction methods, our Consumer Hardware team is making people's lives better through technology.

Responsibilities

• Manage the subsystem and/or individual consumer electronics part designs from concept to production.
• Work with global manufacturing suppliers and partners of subsystems, and drive individual part design from concept to production. Travel to meet with suppliers.
• Build and troubleshoot prototypes, analyze results of reliability testing, iteratively improve the design, and bring to production.
• Create and publish detailed 3D CAD and 2D drawings for your design models, search out and select materials, components, and sub-systems for product launch.
• Design for function, reliability, human factors, manufacturability, and cosmetic requirements.

Location

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