About the job

Google creates helpful devices for users through innovation. When a consumer receives a device, its packaging should convey the necessary care for the user and the environment at large. The SDE's job is to optimize manufacturing for quality, cost, and delivery while innovating for higher value delivery.

This role covers technical program management, process engineering, and Quality engineering. As the Supplier Development Engineer, your job focuses on manufacturing the delivery of packaging parts that's designed to protect the device, and facilitate a great user experience with regards to packaging. In this role, you will cover both the New Products Introduction (NPI) phase and sustaining mass production. The coverage starts from raw material receipt, printing, structural forming, assembly, and delivery from packaging supplier into device factory for application. Early engagement with the Design team, Sourcing Managers, and suppliers are expected for NPIs (e.g., supplier selection, DFM). Refining supplier's Quality System Management to match Google's expectation will be required.

Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. Our Devices & Services team combines the best of Google AI, Software, and Hardware to create radically helpful experiences for users. We research, design, and develop new technologies and hardware to make our user's interaction with computing faster, seamless, and more powerful. Whether finding new ways to capture and sense the world around us, advancing form factors, or improving interaction methods, the Devices & Services team is making people's lives better through technology.

Responsibilities

• Develop supplier management strategies and partner with Commodity managers and design engineers to source and qualify potential suppliers to support Google hardware product packaging delivery to market.
• Manage and oversee new product development build quality in supplier factories to ensure good yield to support manufacturers' pack-out activities. Collaborate with device assembly's incoming quality engineer and Outgoing Quality Control (OQC) correlation.
• Own packaging supplier manufacturing readiness for NPI (New Product Introduction) builds and overall quality matter. Engage in technical program management and manufacturing process engineering.
• Collaborate with industrial designers and design engineers to sign golden sample, limit samples. Ensure yield rate with quality can support Google product packaging shipment.
• Partner with packaging designers on Design-of-Experiments done in supplier's factories.