Thermal Manufacturing Engineer, NPI Product Operations

About the Job

Google's custom-designed equipment makes up one of the largest and most powerful computing infrastructures in the world. The Manufacturing Operations team is responsible for providing the manufacturing capability to deliver this state-of-the-art physical infrastructure. As a Manufacturing Engineer, you evaluate the product designs and create the processes, tools and procedures behind Google's powerful search technology. When vendors build parts for our infrastructure, you're right there alongside ensuring manufacturing processes are repeatable and controlled. You collaborate with Commodity Managers and Design Engineers to determine Google's infrastructure needs and product specifications. Your work ensures the various pieces of Google's infrastructure fit together perfectly and keep our systems humming along smoothly for a seamless user experience.

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.

Responsibilities

• Be responsible for developing manufacturing strategy, performing DFX driving implementation of manufacturing solutions for thermal assemblies.
• Research, develop and qualify advanced thermal manufacturing solutions to ready the supply chain for future product requirements.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance manufacturing processes and product designs. Identify process, tooling, and automation opportunities to support high volume manufacturing with quality, reduced cost, and performance repeatability.
• Provide front line support for manufacturing and field quality issues, owning resolution of manufacturing/supplier issues and driving design issues cross-functionally.
• Drive concurrent engineering through effectively communicating design, process, tooling and material changes to manufacturing partners and design engineering peers.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Industrial, Process, Manufacturing Engineering, a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of relevant manufacturing process and product development experience for thermal (air/liquid cooling)/mechanical parts for networking/server products.
• Experience with manufacturing best practices (Lean, Six Sigma, etc), Design for Excellence (DFX), and production line development.
• Experience with metals processing such as machining, brazing, soldering, skiving, zipper fin stamping, etc.
• Master's degree in Industrial, Mechanical, Manufacturing Engineering or a related discipline (preferred).
• Experience with thermal designs and simulations (preferred).
• Experience delivering high volume manufacturing solutions, resolving issues, and leading yield improvements and cycle time reductions for complex parts and assemblies (preferred).
• Experience with thermal/mechanical manufacturing processes including tooling/fixturing and production line development (preferred).
• Ability to influence the product design process by proposing improvements with data (preferred).
• Excellent communication skills, and ability to collaborate with multi-geo teams on projects spanning multiple technologies (preferred).