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Google · 12 hours ago

Senior Failure Analysis Engineer, Early Field Failure Analysis

Mountain View, CA, USA

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$138K/yr - $202K/yr

8+ years exp

Google is a leading technology company, and they are seeking a Senior Failure Analysis Engineer to join their team. In this role, you will be responsible for analyzing failures in consumer electronics, providing insights to design teams, and collaborating with cross-functional engineering teams to identify root causes and implement corrective actions.

AppsArtificial Intelligence (AI)Cloud StorageSearch EngineSEO

Growth Opportunities

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Minimize failures experienced by customers

Reproduce and analyze field failures to understand failure mechanism and root cause

Ensure materials and failure analysis capabilities required to support whole device screening (Level 1) and module level (Level 2) failure analysis are in place

Work with the cross-functional teams to take field failures from root cause identification through corrective action

Understand factory Outgoing Quality Control (OQC) process and work on improving any gaps, based on field returns, that could result in customer failures

Qualification

TroubleshootingFailure analysisConsumer electronicsMicroscopesMultimetersOscilloscopesProject managementPeople managementMechanical cross sectioningX-ray/CTSEM+ EDSOrganizational skills

Required

Bachelor's degree in Electronic Engineering Technology, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Material Science, or equivalent practical experience

8 years of experience troubleshooting/failure analysis

Experience with consumer electronics products and technologies

Preferred

Master's degree or PhD in Electrical, Mechanical, Industrial, Materials, or a related engineering field

Experience with standard focus area tools, including: microscopes, multimeters, and oscilloscopes at least one of the following: X-ray/CT, SEM+ EDS, mechanical cross sectioning

Excellent project management, people management, and organizational skills

Benefits

Bonus

Equity

Benefits

Company

Google

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Google specializes in internet-related services and products, including search, advertising, and software. It is a sub-organization of Alphabet.

Founded in 1998

Mountain View, California, USA

10001+ employees

https://www.google.com

H1B Sponsorship

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Funding

Current Stage

Public Company

Total Funding

$26.1M

Key Investors

Kleiner Perkins,Sequoia CapitalAndy Bechtolsheim

2004-08-19IPO

1999-06-07Series Unknown· $25M

1998-11-01Angel· $1M

Leadership Team

Sundar Pichai

CEO

Thomas Kurian

CEO - Google Cloud

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