Hardware Reliability Engineer

Be part of a team that pushes boundaries, developing custom silicon solutions that power the future of Google's direct-to-consumer products. You'll contribute to the innovation behind products loved by millions worldwide. Your expertise will shape the next generation of hardware experiences, delivering unparalleled performance, efficiency, and integration.

The AI and Infrastructure team is redefining what’s possible. We empower Google customers with breakthrough capabilities and insights by delivering AI and Infrastructure at unparalleled scale, efficiency, reliability and velocity. Our customers include Googlers, Google Cloud customers, and billions of Google users worldwide.

We're the driving team behind Google's groundbreaking innovations, empowering the development of our cutting-edge AI models, delivering unparalleled computing power to global services, and providing the essential platforms that enable developers to build the future. From software to hardware our teams are shaping the future of world-leading hyperscale computing, with key teams working on the development of our TPUs, Vertex AI for Google Cloud, Google Global Networking, Data Center operations, systems research, and much more.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $115,000-$166,000 + 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

• Lead analysis of system hardware designs to enable proactive design evaluations and product de-risk at an early stage of development.
  
• Lead system reliability efforts by working with other organizations to define reliability goals and reliability plans, securing the resources needed to execute the plan.
  
• Implement the reliability plan and lead all efforts to assess and mitigate risk of failure early during New Product Introduction (NPI).
• Drive reliability test plans and collect, analyze, and synthesize the test data to enable verification of the design reliability goals.
• Lead system reliability monitoring efforts (availability, repair trends) and proactively alert product teams on unwanted system behavior, working on mitigation strategy definition and implementation.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Reliability/Electrical/Industrial/Mechanical Engineering or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in manufacturing.
• Experience with failure analysis and fault isolation techniques and how to apply them to find root causes of failure.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree in Engineering or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 5 years of experience overseeing yield improvements and cycle time reductions for high volume and high complexity parts.
  
• Experience overseeing yield improvements and cycle time reductions for high volume and high complexity parts.
  
• Experience with system level reliability tools such as Reliability Block Diagrams (RBDs), Mean Cumulative Function (MCF), Homogeneous and Non-Homogeneous Poisson Processes (HPP, NHPP), and simulation tools.
• Experience in statistics and JMP.