Materials Engineer, Advanced Architecture
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Product Design, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 5 years of experience with inks, coatings for polymeric or glass surface finishes.
Preferred qualifications:
- Master's degree or PhD in Materials Science, Organic Chemistry, Polymer science, Chemical Engineering, or a related field.
- Experience in fundamental failure analysis methodology to derive a root cause of failure.
- Ability to take an idea from concept and see it through to production.
- Ability to work independently and be proactive.
- Excellent communication and problem-solving skills.
About the job
As a member of a fast-paced multi-disciplinary team, you use your creativity and diverse 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.
Our mission is to redefine the possibilities of surface finishes through advanced material science and engineering technology. We create innovative solutions that achieve the better surface durability, product longevity, and aesthetics of the parts of different products.
As a Materials Engineer, you will have expertise in surface finishes material to join our Material Science and Engineering team. As a Surface Finishing Engineer, you will be a key member of a fast-paced, global, and multidisciplinary team. You will utilize your creativity and diverse engineering background to research, develop, and evaluate innovative surface finishing techniques for groundbreaking product experiences. You will collaborate with Industrial Design, Product Design, Product Integrity, Operations, manufacturing partners, and external vendors. You will analyze and prototype innovative concepts, ensuring their feasibility and successful implementation in manufacturing. Your expertise in surface finishing will be essential in mitigating risks, preventing failures, and enhancing the performance and aesthetics of products reliant on these finishes.
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
- Create and develop surface finishes and decoration roadmap that enables future design and product development, in close cooperation with Industrial designers, Product designers, Operations and Reliability teams on material qualification and pass product level testing.
- Engage with global materials suppliers on multiple projects at once, ensure material Design of Experiments (DOEs) are carried out, analyze test results, and help select the best material for an application.
- Lead the development of new surface finishes and treatment that mitigate risks and enhance the performance of systems that rely on these materials.
- Travel to provide on-site support for project trials and builds.
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