Supplier Quality Engineer, Solid State Drive

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Quality Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in quality, reliability or product engineering.
• 4 years of experience in SSD manufacturing processes.
• Experience with hardware in industries such as servers, automotive, or aerospace.
• Experience with SSD technologies, including SSD test processes.
• Ability to travel up to 15% of the time as required.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD in Electrical, Mechanical, Industrial, Materials, or a related engineering field.
• 12 years of experience in manufacturing, quality, or product engineering for hardware technology and systems.
• Experience in technical leadership, project management, and executive communication.
• Experience with Dynamic Random-Access Memory (DRAM) technology.

8 years of experience in quality, reliability or product engineering.

About the job

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. We are seeking an experienced Supplier Quality Engineer to lead the Solid State Drive (SSD) Commodity as part of a critical team responsible for ensuring the robustness, longevity, and performance of our hardware systems.

As an SSD Supplier Quality Engineer, you will work in collaboration with Suppliers, Hardware Designers, Commodity Managers, Manufacturing Engineers, and Data Center teams. You will set and manage SSD component quality and reliability standards, drive supplier factory certification audits, and lead component and manufacturing site qualifications. You will actively manage NPI and sustain quality, continuous improvements, and ensure lessons learned are actioned back to suppliers and partner teams. You will drive true root cause failure analysis and systemic corrective actions with comprehensive preventative actions. You will extract and analyze data from supplier facilities, Google production lines, and Google data centers to verify performance and drive improvements.

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.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $138,000-$202,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.

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.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.

Responsibilities

• Apply Root Cause Corrective Action (RCCA) fundamentals and collaborate with teams to help them understand and apply RCCA tools and principles and analyze or understand failure to resolve issues.
• Define and execute data collection activities for technical issues.
• Drive process design, and qualification activities of a manufacturing process for a component, part, or product.
• Own the supplier quality and reliability for Solid-State Drive (SSD) components, from New Product Introduction (NPI) through end-of-life.
• Develop and implement advanced quality plans and process controls (e.g., Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA), Design of Experiments (DOE), Capability Process Index (CPK), etc.) to mitigate risks.