Senior Product Design Engineer, Trackers

Senior Product Design Engineer

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.

As a Senior Product Design Engineer, you will lead the design of the next generation of health trackers and smart home consumer products. You will drive the design, analysis, and prototyping of new concepts while working in a manufacturing and product-oriented development environment. You will demonstrate problem-solving and design skills, communication, and understanding of engineering fundamentals. You will have organizational skills to help and manage our varied responsibilities across the product.

You will work on a Product Design team that balances comfort, performance, and appearance in the design that complements and enables the technology. You will collaborate with contract manufacturers, external vendors and internal cross-functional teams such as Electrical Engineering, Antenna, Industrial Design, Reliability, Operations, Camera, and Product to define and deliver products.

The Google Home team focuses on hardware, software and services offerings for the home, ranging from thermostats to smart displays. The Home team researches, designs, and develops new technologies and hardware to make users' homes more helpful. Our mission is the helpful home: to create a home that cares for the people inside it and the world around it.

Responsibilities include applying design, engineering, and technical expertise to influence cross-functionally and deliver reliable mass production components, and solve problems. Anticipate and address product design issues or risks, analyze data, and validate product design to suggest or implement design improvements. Manage the product design, provide guidance to team members, and communicate progress, and request feedback to prevent/remove roadblocks. Work with suppliers and manufacturing to ensure quality of the products and be responsible for understanding and resolving all reliability concerns for designs.

Travel as needed for program development.