Role & seniority: Supplier Quality Engineer (SQE), mid-to-senior level; focuses on hardware quality, reliability, and supplier management for Google’s power/infrastructure components.

Stack/tools

Quality tools: RCCA, root cause analysis, failure analysis, process capability, reliability prediction tools
Data/tech: scripting languages, SQL
Quality management: supplier scorecards, supplier quality audits, cross-functional collaboration with design, commodity teams, and manufacturing
Environment: design review input, RCCA coaching, data extraction from supplier facilities and production lines

Top 3 responsibilities

Apply RCCA fundamentals, analyze failures, and drive corrective/preventive actions with design and commodity teams
Interface with supplier engineering and contract manufacturers to monitor quality/reliability, lead continuous improvements, and coordinate failure analysis
Manage supplier quality initiatives, audits, and supplier scorecards; drive systemic quality/reliability improvements

Must-have skills

5 years of experience in power technology and manufacturing process quality
Experience in statistical product quality control, process capability, reliability, failure analysis, and process improvement
Ability to extract/analyze data from supplier facilities and production lines; collaborate across hardware teams
Familiarity with RCCA, supplier audits, and cross-functional coordination

Nice-to-haves

Qual

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MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Power related field, or equivalent practical experience.
5 years of experience in the power technology and manufacturing process.
Experience in statistical product quality control, process capability, reliability, failure analysis, and process improvement.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Certification in American society for quality (e.g., CQE, CQM, CRE, or CQA).
Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Power related field, or equivalent practical experience.
10 years of experience in quality, reliability, or supplier quality management.
Experience with reliability prediction tools.
Experience with scripting languages and SQL.

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.

Google's custom-designed equipment makes up one of the largest and most computing infrastructures in the world. The Google Hardware Quality and Reliability team is responsible for delivering this physical infrastructure.

As a Supplier Quality Engineer (SQE), you will assess supplier designs, manufacturing, quality and reliability powering Google’s technical infrastructure technology. When suppliers build parts for our infrastructure, you are right there alongside assuring manufacturing processes are repeatable and controlled and there is alignment on the appropriate requirements. You will collaborate with others to determine Google’s infrastructure needs and product specifications and to make sure maximize multi-sourcing for each component. Your work ensures Google infrastructure fits perfectly and keeps our systems humming along for a seamless user experience. You will work directly with supplier partners managing all aspects of power supplier quality. You will collaborate with hardware designers, commodity managers, manufacturing engineers and drive supplier failure analysis. You will establish true root causes, and drive systemic corrective actions with demonstrated preventative solutions. You will extract and analyze data from supplier facilities, Google production lines, and our data centers to measure product performance and drive improvements.

The AI and Infrastructure team is redefining what’s possible. We empower Google customers with breakthrough capabilities and insights by delivering AI and Infrastructure at unparalleled scale, efficiency, reliability and velocity. Our customers include Googlers, Google Cloud customers, and billions of Google users worldwide.

Supplier Quality Engineer