Sustaining Technical Program Manager Posts by Google

Job Description

About the job:

Google’s custom-designed machines make up one of the largest and most powerful computing infrastructures in the world. The Hardware Testing Engineering team ensures that this cutting-edge equipment is reliable. In the R&D lab, you design test equipment for prototypes of our machinery and develop the protocols used to scale these tests for the entire global team. Working closely with design engineers, you give input on designs to improve our hardware until you’re sure it meets Google’s standards of quality and reliability.

With your technical expertise, you create test plans for highly complex platforms (e.g., validating the interaction of multiple pieces of equipment at the networking and subsystem levels), and using your deep knowledge of component design characteristics, you diagnose highly complex hardware or software issues.

Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. Our team combines the best of Google AI, Software, and Hardware to create radically helpful experiences. We research, design, and develop new technologies and hardware to make computing faster, seamless, and more powerful. We aim to make people’s lives better through technology.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience as a technical program manager.
• 8 years of experience in the manufacturing industry.
• Experience managing cross-functional technical teams.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master’s degree or MBA in Engineering.
• 8 years of experience working and managing international Original Equipment Manufacturing (OEM) partners.
• Experience managing a cross-functional team in order to achieve new product objectives inclusive of quality, yield, and cost.
• Ability to travel 30% as needed.

Responsibilities:

• Identify and ensure ongoing technical risks are identified and mitigated or resolved.
• Manage the operations side for line layout, line bring up, fixture buy off, and line qualifications for ramp.
• Manage the product yield, quality performance at the Contract Manufacturers (CM) site, and mass production yield and performance updates.
• Guide CMs to strengthen their manufacturing process control. Set Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and goals for CMs for continuous improvements. Lead lessons learnt practice and feedback to cross-functional teams.
• Provide design review (i.e. Tolerance Stack Up Analysis (TSA) and Design For Assembly (DFA)) to Engineering team and early involvement from New Product Introduction (NPI) stage (e.g., EVT, DVT, PVT) through mass production.