Senior Product Design Engineer, Pixel Watch

Google • Mountain View, CA

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About The Position

The Google Pixel Watch team focuses on designing and delivering the world's most helpful wearable experience. The team works on shaping the future of Pixel devices and services through some of the most advanced designs, techniques, products, and experiences in consumer electronics. This includes bringing together the best of Google’s artificial intelligence, software, and hardware to build global wearables and create transformative experiences for users across the world.

As a Senior Product Design Engineer, you will design the next generation of Pixel wearables. You will drive the design, analysis, and prototyping of new concepts while working in a manufacturing and product-oriented development environment. You demonstrate problem-solving and design skills, clear communication, and an understanding of engineering fundamentals. Your organizational skills help you manage your varied responsibilities across the product. You will work on a Product Design team that balances comfort, performance, and appearance in an innovative and harmonious design that complements and enables the technology. You will collaborate with external vendors and internal cross-functional teams such as Electrical Engineering, Antenna, Industrial Design, Reliability, Operations, Camera, and Product to define and deliver excellent products.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Product Design, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience designing mechanical components such as plastic or metal parts, mechanical assemblies, printed circuit boards, or flexes.
• 5 years of experience using computer-aided design (CAD) tools such as 3D MCAD, NX, Creo, or Solidworks.

Nice To Haves

• Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Product Design, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of work experience in consumer product design.
• Experience shipping multiple consumer products in a lead or senior engineer role.
• Experience collaborating with suppliers around the world on part manufacturing and final assembly, including onsite factory support.
• Experience in system integration, including electro-mechanical components (audio, display, camera, antenna, etc.), waterproofing, thermals, grounding, or product architecture.
• Knowledge in multiple manufacturing methods used in consumer products.

Responsibilities

• Apply design, engineering, and technical expertise to influence cross-functionally and deliver reliable mass production components, and solve time-sensitive 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.
• Travel internationally upto 20% of the time to engineering builds to oversee mechanical validation, design, and assembly.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior