Lead OptoMechanical Engineer, Google Augmented Reality

As a member of a fast-paced multi-disciplinary team, you use your creativity and 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.

The Google Augmented Reality (AR) team is a group of engineers, designers, and research scientists tasked with building the platforms that enable computing required for great immersive and augmented experience and prototyping helpful, delightful user journeys.

In this role, you will be an integral member of the team, responsible for systems software design, implementation, optimization, and ongoing maintenance and enhancements.

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.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $174,000-$258,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the technical lead for optomechanical display subsystem design, development, and implementation for head worn devices, including waveguide, display engines, and Rx lenses.
• Lead development and architecture efforts for miniaturization of novel optomechanical subsystems, working with other system and cross-functional leads to arrive at reusable designs optimized for consumer usage.
• Work to drive design for manufacturability (DFM) and design for assembly (DFA) efforts from early NTI to prototype to mass production, working closely with internal and external partners and contract manufacturers. 
• Own and develop comprehensive requirements documents and tolerance stackup analyses to ensure performance and reliability of optomechanical systems through the conditions expected by mass production consumer hardware.
• Establish mechanical and optical metrology strategies, using these strategies to devise reliable and robust fixtures, measurement capabilities, and validation approaches.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Product Design, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 8 years of experience designing mechanical components such as plastic or metal parts, mechanical assemblies, printed circuit boards, or flexes.
  
• Experience with optomechanical displays, design for manufacturability (DFM), design for assembly (DFA), or precision mechanical systems.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Physics, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 4 years of experience working in optomechanical system design, or 3 years of experience with an advanced degree.
• Experience executing designs for precision mechanical systems, including kinematic design and tolerance analyses.
• Experience with multidisciplinary STOP analysis (structural-thermal-optical-performance).
• Experience with opto-mechanical design, tolerance analysis for manufacturability(DFM), alignment strategies, including design for assembly(DFA) and optical testing and metrology, and use of lab-based equipment.
• Knowledge of end-to-end consumer electronics development processes and adaptable development approaches for designs, prototypes and scaled manufacturing.