Hardware Electrical Engineer, Pixel Watch

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience in embedded system design in the consumer electronics industry.
• Experience with prototype bring-up, debugging, functional verification, and manufacturing support.
• Experience in circuit board-level design engineering, including PMIC, charger, voltage step-down circuitry and power routing.
• Experience working within a lab-based environment.

Preferred qualifications:

• 5 years of experience working in a consumer electronics/embedded system design technical role.
• Experience with system power integration and side-band control. Collaborate with software development from firmware through the system level.
• Experience in PDN improvement, DCR/ACR modeling, switching power phase response analysis.
• Knowledge in analog power design fundamental for consumer electrical products, including DC-DC design/AC -DC converter/charger control design, circuitry component selection, power efficiency improvement, power stability simulation and tuning, power budget evaluation, power tree improvement.
• Understanding of product development process for mass-volume production design, focusing on design for manufacturing and design for test.

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.

As an Electrical Engineer on the Watch product team, you will be responsible for key design activities throughout the Watch product development phase. This includes focusing on technical design development and improvement, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and working closely with external suppliers and partners for design and manufacturing. You will also work on some hardware (HW) related issues, failure analysis (FA) that receive feedback from users, early field failure analysis (EFFA), and return merchandise authorization (RMA).

The Platforms and Devices team encompasses Google's various computing software platforms across environments (desktop, mobile, applications), as well as our first party devices and services that combine the best of Google AI, software, and hardware. Teams across this area research, design, and develop new technologies to make our user's interaction with computing faster and more seamless, building innovative experiences for our users around the world.

• Lead the electrical design integration and validation of Google's Watch products. Deliver the boards (PCBA or FPCA) by performing all the design tasks including schematic and layout, collaboration with PD, SIPI, Power and sub-system teams for the design improvement.
• Bring up the system, plan the validation, troubleshoot, and conduct the measurements. Debug issues discovered from factory production, reliability, user trials, and RMA.
• Collaborate with technical teams on the key function design requirement alignment, board routing improvements, cost analysis, and drive the engineering activities with the high priority tasks, through the entire NPI phase.
• Work with the operation team to provide clear requirements for factory testing, process improvement, test coverage, and assembly issue FA and monitoring.
• Contribute to the new technology study and development for design improvements and new features.