Supplier Quality Engineer, OEM Networking

Supplier Quality Engineer, OEM Networking Location

Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Mid Experience driving progress, solving problems, and mentoring more junior team members; deeper expertise and applied knowledge within relevant area.

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Engineering, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in manufacturing in supplier quality, reliability, or hardware quality engineering for networking, server, or data center infrastructure.

• 8 years of experience in supplier quality, reliability, or hardware quality engineering for networking, server, or data center infrastructure.
• Experience in high-volume manufacturing (HVM) environments working directly with OEM suppliers and leading cross-functional technical initiatives involving failure analysis (FA), quality systems, and root cause resolution.
• Experience with networking hardware systems including switches, routers, line cards, optics, power, and thermal management, and with data analysis and scripting tools such as Python, SQL, or equivalent.
• Ability to architect new operational frameworks and drive technical clarity in ambiguous, non-standardized environments.
• Knowledge of hardware reliability engineering and formal quality management systems.
• Ability to distill and present complex technical issues to both engineering teams and executive leadership.

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.

Google Cloud is building the future of cloud computing, and at its core lies a global infrastructure that requires unparalleled quality and reliability.

As a Supplier Quality Engineer for Networking, you will join the team responsible for setting and managing the quality and reliability standards for our OEM Router and Optical Transport products. You will collaborate to drive supplier development and ongoing performance management to Google's technology and business needs. You are direct and have extensive involvement in the tools and techniques used to assess product quality and reliability.

You have solid partner management skills and love to sift through data and use it to drive design or process improvements.

As a Supplier Quality Engineer, you will manage the OEM supplier quality and create the processes, tools and procedures behind Google's powerful search technology. You will collaborate with Commodity Managers and Engineers to determine Google's infrastructure needs and product specifications and to make sure we maximize multi-sourcing for each product. Your work ensures the various pieces of Google's infrastructure fit together perfectly and keeps our systems humming along smoothly for a seamless user experience.

We are always on call to keep the networks up and running, ensuring the users have the best and fastest experience possible.

Behind everything our users see online is the architecture built by the Technical Infrastructure team to keep it running. From developing and maintaining our data centers to building the next generation of Google platforms, we make Google's product portfolio possible. We're proud to be our engineers' engineers and love voiding warranties by taking things apart so we can rebuild them. We keep our networks up and running, ensuring our users have the best and fastest experience possible.

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